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TIL Hawaii still has an active leper colony
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TIL a Dutch businessman bought an entire Hungarian village called Bedepuszta to repurpose it as a retreat
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TIL Tim Wong made the first and only successful attempt at singlehandedly repopulating the extremely rare pipevine swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In seven years, he cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (sole food source) and donates thousands of caterpillars to the Botanical Gardens.
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TIL It took Quebec until 2006 to pay off its debt from hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics
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TIL of the Ikea effect. It is a psychological bias that causes us to over-value things that we build or assemble ourselves.
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TIL Traditional Chinese medicine has helped to push species including tigers, rhinoceroses, sea horses and pangolins to the brink of extinction. Demand has surged over the past few decades as China’s wealthy population has grown. Global demand is rising as a key pillar of China’s State Council.