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TIL Iceland has a higher percentage of English speakers than the USA despite English not being an official language

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0WDp TIL when Einstein famously said “God does not play dice” when he was disenchanted by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, Niels Bohr replied: “Stop Telling God what to do.”
8a9DP TIL that in 1974 a local in Alaska played an April fool's joke on April 1st of an entire city. He set about 100 car tires, smoke bombs and other flammable materials on fire in the crater of an inactive volcano to make it look like the volcano was about to erupt.
VMbJk TIL White torture is the most horrible torture method known
grVD9 TIL that the Wayside books were written by the same guy as Holes (Louis Sachar)
8aA1X TIL that until 1953, New York City had a pneumatic tube mail network that spanned 27 miles and connected 23 post offices. At its peak, the system moved 95,000 letters a day.