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TIL about a town in Western Australia call Wittenoom that was so contaminated with asbestos that 80% of the population died and the whole town was declared a contaminated site. Only one resident still lives there

by whatilearned April 5, 2022, 11:02 am

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TIL about Elsie Eiler, who since her husband’s death in 2004, has remained the sole resident of Monowi, Nebraska.

by whatilearned March 12, 2022, 6:35 pm

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TIL Europe’s first beer fountain in Žalec, Slovenia was built by the town community using the tax money collected from a resident who won the Eurojackpot lottery. In the fountain, it’s possible to drink different beers from five taps with a special microchipped glass.

by whatilearned November 28, 2021, 10:01 pm

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TIL orcas have specialized cultures who hunt differently. In the Pacific Northwest resident orcas feed on salmon and communicate freely, transient orcas feed on marine mammals using stealth, and offshore orcas may feed on sharks. Although the same species, no interbreeding has been observed.

by whatilearned October 13, 2021, 6:51 am

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TIL Monowi, Nebraska is the only incorporated village in US with population of 1. The sole resident, Elsie Eiler, is the mayor as well as librarian and bartender.

by whatilearned September 20, 2021, 4:48 pm

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TIL the original Dino Crisis 3–developed by Capcom (which created the Resident Evil series)–placed players in fighting time-displaced dinosaurs rampaging across a city due to the time rifts caused by the events in Dino Crisis 2. It was scrapped in favor of a futuristic spaceship version due to 9/11.

by whatilearned September 13, 2021, 5:42 pm

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TIL that since 1999, 55 Cuban soccer players have defected to the United States after being flown over for a game. This was possible because of the wet feet, dry feet policy, which stated that any Cuban who set foot in the United States was entitled to become a US resident. The policy ended in 2017.

by whatilearned August 21, 2021, 7:10 pm

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TIL the voice acting in the original Resident Evil was so bad because the English actors had no idea of the context of their lines and the Japanese devs picked whatever take sounded the best to them.

by whatilearned July 15, 2021, 10:10 pm

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TIL Back in 1991, five years after the Chernobyl disaster, scientists discovered a fungal resident of the radioactive complex actually feasts on deadly radiation. Scientists believe the Cryptococcus neoformans fungus could allow humans to insulate against deadly rays

by whatilearned June 29, 2021, 11:03 am

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TIL about John Simpkins, an artist who was the sole resident of a ghost town in Andrews, Oregon. A roundtrip venture to the closest grocery store is about 300 miles.

by whatilearned June 9, 2021, 5:23 am

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Today I learned about a Houston resident physician who was decapitated in a terrible elevator accident in which his head was stuck inside the elevator with several horrified individuals until someone was able to come and free them.

by whatilearned June 5, 2021, 1:01 pm

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TIL of the Russian hamlet of Tsovkra, located in Dagestan, where every able-bodied resident is able to tightrope walk; it has been a tradition for over 100 years

by whatilearned May 24, 2021, 11:00 am

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