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

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PY7EE TIL arXiv is pronounced "archive", not "ark sieve", because the X represents the Greek letter chi
VMaDD TIL of Staff Sgt. Monique Munro-Harris, who survived a sting from one of the world's most poisonous creatures and now goes by the call sign "The Scorpion Queen"
1aKDO TIL "The Lone Ranger" (that flopped spectacularly) cost $250 million to produce and ended up costing Disney $190 million in losses.
69ge8 TIL that in 2006, FBI agents attempted to arrest prison guards at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, after having learnt the guards were trading drugs for sex with female inmates. One of the guards opened fire with a personal handgun, killing one agent and wounding another.
neWbb TIL Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto as a hobby guesses the measurements of an object and seeing if he is right with a tape measure he always carries with him