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TIL The norse settled Greenland prior to the current inuit population

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7EwL TIL that in 1946 the United States offered to give up its atomic bomb stockpile and transfer all fissionable material to a United Nations body, to which a Soviet representative said that USSR does not want equality. The Soviet Union wants complete freedom to pursue its own aims as it sees fit".
Yp4VA TIL John Mulaney, who knew he wanted to be in show business from a young age, as a child had the opportunity to audition for the lead role in Home Alone, but his parents declined. He also shares a birthday with Macauley Culkin, who got the role
mVdO TIL a woman was once fined and faced jail time for reporting her rape. The cops did not believe her until her rapist was caught raping another woman and had pictures of him raping the earlier victim
Br9WW TIL that Jim Carrey's Grinch smile isn't prosthetic or CGI, he can actually contort his face that way.
vJMB TIL that in 1968 an American vessel was captured by North Korea. The crew was abused, and to show the world, they used puns (“We paean the DPRK [North Korea]. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung”) and gave the middle finger in propaganda photographs, claiming it was a “Hawaiian good luck sign”.