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TIL that since 2016, there are more American tourists in Iceland than Icelanders themselves

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5YXy9 TIL the Sioux have refused $1.3 billion in restitution for the seizure of the Black Hills by the U.S. Government, holding out for the return of some of their sacred ancestral lands
9wVdD TIL the placenta develops from cells that originate from the embryo, and has the same DNA as the fetus. So eating the placenta is technically eating parts of the baby.
8eGG8 TIL the longest (distance) recorded cloud-to-cloud lightning strike was 477 miles stretching from Texas to Mississippi, and the longest (duration) lightning strike was 17 seconds and happened over Uruguay.
RD98 TIL When threatened, the hairy frog, or “horror frog,” intentionally breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture through the frog’s toe pads to become defensive weapons.
j6Ngn TIL that a single ton of paper towels takes 17 whole trees and 20,000 gallons of water to make.