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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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VMn8Z TIL that just inside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City is a tiny shop that is the world’s only surviving tattoo shop for medieval pilgrims. This is Razzouk Ink, a shop run by a family who have been involved in the cultural practice of inking marks of faith on pilgrims as far back as 1300.
Me7GV TIL that Jesus first miracle was turning water into wine and it tasted so good it was considered the best wine served at the wedding according to the Bible (John 2:1-11).
x6EO0 TIL that great apes go through a mid-life crisis. Their measured sense of well being bottoms out in their late 20's to the early 30's before rebounding later on. The finding that mid-life crises may not be uniquely human suggests they might have a biological, rather than a sociological, cause.
4XmGa TIL About Jamie Minor - The young woman who died alone trapped in an air duct over a steakhouse in downtown Austin, Texas
dmkr TIL that whenever Kevin Bacon is at a party he gives the DJ $20 NOT to play ‘Footloose.’ “People expect me to start doing flips like a trained monkey. I try to avoid that.”