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TIL that Iceland was involved in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They sent two troops.

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jNrgQ TIL for $22,000 Swiss company Algordanza will take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one. Most stones come out blue because humans contains trace amounts of boron. Occasionally diamond pops out white, yellow or black.
OGDR7 TIL Humans kill somewhere between 100 & 273 million sharks annually . Most are slaughtered exclusively for their fins to make a soup that is unhealthy—the tissue contains high levels of methylmercury. Population declines since the 1970s: blacktip = 93%, tiger = 97%, bull/dusky/hammerhead = 98%.
J1mK1 TIL, while investigating the behavior of web hyperlinks that you drag and drop onto textboxes, that water treatment plants have re-carbonization and sludge lagoons. Also, I'm not sure that all of this should even be public, considering the ramifications when these things are compromised. ISMO.
grd5D TIL between January 1995 and June 2005, Swiss citizens voted 31 times, on 103 federal questions besides many more cantonal and municipal questions. During the same period, French citizens participated in only two referendums.
xoaD TIL When the British burned down the White House in the War of 1812, first they ate the meal that was set out for the President