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TIL that Icelandic Police have only ever killed one person

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grQNy TIL Australians have a diet trend called “Kangatarianism” that focuses on eating only kangaroo meat for environmental reasons
MVwV TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay about the universe begining from a “single originating particle” 80 years before the idea of The Big Bang.
0wgQp TIL that when the Panchen Lama (2nd in command to the Dalai Lama) died in 1989, the Tibetan Buddhists chose a six year old boy to replace him in accordance with tradition. The Chinese government was unhappy with the pick and abducted him. He hasn’t been heard from since.
xLl1 TIL infamously terrible African-American comedy “Pootie Tang” was written and directed by none other than Louis CK
GYMjj TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atom bomb" and the head of the Manhattan Project, once tried to poison his advisor for making him do experimental work instead of theoretical physics.