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TIL children born in Iceland to Icelandic women and American or British servicemen were often given the last name Hansson meaning “his son” as their fathers were either unknown or had left Iceland.

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oD58 TIL that a small, single story building at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, DE is the registered home of over 6,500 corporations and 200,000 businesses, such as Google, American Airlines, Apple, GM, Coca-Cola, KFC, Verizon Internet Services, and Deutsche Bank
VBoX0 TIL that the term ‘iPhone face’ describes an actor in a period movie or TV show whose face is too distractingly modern to be believable.
epBgL TIL fiber optics can be found in nature, in the deep sea, and they are more flexible than the man made ones
p8Lvb TIL there used to be so many oysters in the Chesapeake Bay that they piled up almost to the water's surface, causing navigational hazards. Then we harvested them by the millions, and now the population is down by 99.7%. It's one of "the largest documented declines of a marine species"
Yp7Lv TIL that the finger wrinkling happening when in contact with water is triggered by an autonomic nervous response