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TIL In Iceland, you can hand-draw- a map on a piece of mail without an address, and it will still make it to it’s destination.

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GAmZ4 TIL Richard Nixon's foreign policy known as "Madman Theory" revolved around the idea of acting as irrational and volatile as possible as to make irrational and suicidal threats seem feasible.
ZKMa TIL there’s a man who uses his hands and feet to climb rocks, buildings, and 100-foot walls like a monkey – and it started with a suicide attempt.
WkJQ8 TIL there are contact binary star systems where the stars orbit so close together they bulge into one peanut shaped star. The stars can even share matter back and forth by absorbing each other's planetary nebulae.
Vmv0 TIL if you are granted “Freedom of the City” in the City of London, you have the right to a silken rope, if hanged, and if found drunk, a policeman will put you in a cab or escort you home. You also have the right to herd sheep over London Bridge, a right used as recently as 2013.
mNQy TIL that Jamaica is considered the most homophobic place on earth. Men are even afraid to seek treatment for HIV out of fear they will be associated with homosexuals.