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

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yYQX TIL that filming on the movie ‘The Abyss’ was so intense that actor Ed Harris spontaneously burst into sobbing one day while driving home.
7xWr TIL “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all letters in alphabetical order.
m1JZP TIL The "non-rBST" label on milk has essentially become meaningless because none of the major milk bottlers package milk from rBST-treated cows anymore
XoYr TIL a teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 100 million tons due to its immense density. For comparison, the Empire State Building is purported to tip the scales at a mere 350,000 tons. Also, the highest mountain a neutron star can support is only about 4 inches, making it a near-perfect sphere.
n9jB TIL that during the excavation of a third century Viking settlement in Sweden, archaeologists discovered a Buddha statue from India, an Egyptian ladle, a Byzantine bowl, and an Irish crozier