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TIL there is a statue of a man killing a seal with a bible in front of the University of Iceland main building.

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obML TIL, there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
lZjK TIL of Tibetan Sky Burials, a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposing to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially birds of prey.
XEoA8 TIL there is a gold fire hydrant in San Francisco that is said to have been the only functioning hydrant and is credited with saving the historic Mission District neighborhood during the 1906 quake. It is Painted with a fresh coat of gold paint each April 18
N9J1 TIL it is estimated that there are around 110 million landmines planted all over the world, many of them having been there for decades.
wWKM TIL that in 2010, a spanish woman claimed ownership of the sun and tried to charge everyone who used it a fee.