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TIL that Iceland had a law that allowed killing every Basque person on sight until 2015.

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nEEd TIL that when she was young Marilyn Monroe’s mentally unstable mother tried to kidnap her from her foster parents by stuffing her in a duffle bag.
kk87 TIL In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
R5b1w TIL that NASA sent up 2k jellyfish to space in the 90s that multiplied itself and at some pt, there were 60k jellyfish in the space!
WgBY TIL that between 1990-2008 forty smart, popular, and attractive college-age males died in “accidental drownings”; but two retired NYPD officers believe it is the work of a serial killer or killers which they have dubbed the Smiley Face Murders.
GAog1 TIL that Jackie Wilson always kissed the least attractive girl in the audience. He believed that by doing so, everyone would think they could have him and keep coming back to buy his records.