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TIL that modern Icelandic is identical to Ancient Norse, unlike any other Scandinavian language, meaning that Icelandic children can read old Norse texts much more fluently than most professional Norse historians

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nRjP TIL a soldier deployed to Iraq had his fully paid house foreclosed on by the HOA.
p88RZ TIL that there is intra-Jewish racism within Israel. Israeli Jews of North African, Middle Eastern, Ethiopian, Yemeni, and Indian descent have faced discrimination, in favor of the European-descent Jews.
nejZb TIL Australian doctor Barry Marshall was mocked by physicians of his time when he hypothesized that the bacterial species H. pylori can cause stomach ulcers. To prove his hypothesis, he drank cultured H. pylori and developed stomach ulcers as a result. He later received the Nobel Prize in 2005.
5r7Q TIL that approximately 1/3 of people have jaws that pop or click when they are opened all the way.
OoNK1 TIL The Postmaster General received a letter in 1913 inquiring about the appropriate way to wrap a baby; the customer noted that the Post Office was more trustworthy than the privately owned companies it competed against, which would be too “rough in handling.”