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TIL Iceland’s population is so low they have an incest-prevention app

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wopL1 TIL a man missing nearly 30 years was found alive and living just 80 miles away from where he disappeared after he helped solve his own disappearance by telling a social worker he had a flashback and remembered his name. He had reportedly suffered major memory loss due to a head injury.
mxG8p TIL The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake slightly altered the Earth's rotation, shortening the length of a day by 2.68 microseconds. It also caused the Earth to minutely "wobble" on its axis by up to 25 mm in the direction of 145° east longitude.
mBdY TIL Barbara Morgan was the backup teacher to Christa McAuliffe in the ‘Teacher in Space Project’. She became an astronaut to honour McAuliffe and flew in space 21 years after the doomed Challenger shuttle, finally fulfilling McAuliffe’s mission.
X0Ka6 TIL that the Razzie Awards once nominated a 12 year-old for Worst Actress (Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Firestarter) and had to rescind the nomination because of backlash
lyP1 TIL that Belgium produces an amazing 220,000 tons of chocolate per year, and that the Brussels International Airport is one of the world’s largest selling points of chocolate.