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TIL Iceland’s first permanent settler was a slave called Nightwalker who escaped his master. Little else is known about him.

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VMnv4 TIL The highest paid WNBA player makes 5 times less than the lowest paid NBA player
KoL4 TIL that in 1922, people rioted over whether it was okay or not to wear a straw hat past the “socially acceptable” date of September 15, in New York. The riot lasted 8 days and led to multiple arrests.
rN7Oo TIL that in September 1903, a school opened in Philadelphia that used the phonograph to teach parrots how to speak English, French or German. The school's founder, Mrs. Jacob Hope, launched the school with a record that repeated the phrase "Polly wants a cracker" 1000 times.
X0KdE TIL that Nullsoft didn't release a 4th version of Winamp, jumping straight from Winamp3 to Winamp 5, joking "nobody wants to see a Winamp 4 skin" ("4 skin" being a pun on foreskin).
neXoP TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up his first barbell in 1960, when his soccer coach took his team to a local gym. At the age of 14, he chose bodybuilding over soccer as a career.