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TIL the entire Internet weighs about as much as a strawberry.
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TIL of Hart Island, AKA “Island of the Dead”, off the coast of New York City. It’s the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world with over 1 million unclaimed bodies. The bodies are buried by prisoners from Rikers Island. All graves are unmarked. Nobody is allowed on.
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TIL Mark Twain was born two weeks after Halley's Comet's closest approach in 1835. In 1909 he said he must also go out with it. His prediction was accurate as he died 1 day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.
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TIL Rob Knox, who played Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was stabbed to death outside a bar in London while protecting his younger brother from two men, one of whom was armed with two knives. He was 18.
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TIL Art Bell set a Guinness World Record by staying on the air for 116 hours and 15 minutes. Using the money raised on air, Bell chartered a plane to fly to Vietnam and rescue 130 stranded Vietnamese orphans, who were eventually brought to the United States and adopted by American families.
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TIL That July is Disability Pride Month