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TIL that Scandinavians settled Greenland 300 years before native Greenlanders did

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78o6O TIL that the main villain of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Dio Brando, derives his name from a combination of the surnames of heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio and American actor Marlon Brando.
loaNG TIL President Lyndon Johnson an owner of the Aphicar loved playing pranks on his passengers. It involved barrelling the vehicle down a hill into a lake and exclaiming to his passengers that the brakes had malfunctioned, while they had no idea the car was designed to float in water.
wGMP TIL the typical person in the bottom 5 percent of the American income distribution is still richer than 68 percent of the world’s inhabitants
WOMB TIL the Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL team) installed two Tesla coils in its stadium in 2011, just so they could shoot lightning whenever they scored a goal.
rjGM TIL of defecation syncope, which is when a person poops so hard they pass out.