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TIL there is an island in the Pacific of 300 people, no longer than 750m, where a Polynesian people live at a population density equalling that of Bangladesh. The fact that the island’s ecosystem hasn’t been negatively impacted has attracted the attention of sustainability scientists.

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9Y79r TIL the upper atmosphere of Saturn’s (and other gas giants presumably) poles are heated by the massive Auroras happening there!
yQxKw TIL there’s no scientific difference between pigeons and doves — the difference boils down to linguistic traditions.
neGbP TIL that the decline of the Maya may have been strongly attributed to inter-city warfare, and hieroglyphs in 2002 tell the story.
vrwL TIL that if you pirate “Game Dev Tycoon,” the virtual games that the player develops will be virtually pirated, and the player will go bankrupt, making it impossible to win.
areN TIL in 2007, a 75 year old woman smashed up a Comcast office with a hammer because she was fed up with their poor customer service.