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TIL Iceland has had a complete revolution within the past year, removing their government and bankers and bringing them to justice.

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4XD75 TIL in April of 1968, Jane Elliot did a racial experiment where she turned her third grade class of students against one another based solely on the color of their eyes.
6EVp7 TIL that after 2 years of using a Catalan mercenary company to fight the Turks, the Byzantine emperor betrayed the company and tried to wipe them out in 1305. The mercenaries went on a rampage so destructive that the monks of Mount Athos only lifted their ban of Catalan citizens in the year 2000.
Kv1a TIL An extension cord with two male ends on it is often used to bench test electrical equipment in the industrial field, but is considered so dangerous in other applications, that it is commonly referred to as a “suicide cord.”
woN8W TIL about the elite overproduction theory, where a sucessful society produces more percieved members of the elite than it can sustain, thus creating societal instability when an "alternative" elite bands together to take over power in what they see as their rightful places in society
oBxoL TIL that Iceland is essentially free of mosquitoes