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TIL the majority of Icelanders either believe in elves or are unwilling to rule out their existence

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nWGwr TIL: Pluto's orbit has aligned with the constellation Capricorn since 2008. Tonight, for the last time in our lifetime, Pluto will be there. Tomorrow Pluto's orbit will begin aligning with the constellation Aquarius. Just a fun reminder that the universe is making history tomorrow.
yQW8X TIL that Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia's actor) was cremated and the ashes are kept in a giant Prozac pill.
YWdr TIL, an Indian man traveled from India to Sweden on a bicycle to meet his Swedish wife in 1978. The journey took him 4 months and through eight countries.
6le7 TIL that “The Goldwater Rule” forbids psychiatrists from offering opinions on somebody s/he hasn’t interviewed. It was created in response to Barry Goldwater suing Fact Magazine for $75K after publishing “1189 Psychiatrists Think Goldwater is Pyschologically Unfit to be President” in 1964.
aAYJ TIL that in 1901 a doctor named Duncan MacDougall tried to prove the existence of the human soul. To do so he measured the weight of a person at the moment of death. He had 6 patients all of which experienced weight loss with the average loss of weight being 21 grams.