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TIL at least 42,000 workers remain trapped on cruise ships without paychecks

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Ywrv TIL Iceland is extremely protective of their language, instead of loaning words from other languages they repurpose old ones, telephone is ‘simi’, meaning thread, jet plane is 'thota’, meaning to zoom and the word for computer, 'tölva’ translates to number priestess or numbers witch.
yVQVw TIL one Brazil nut contains twice the recommended daily amount of selenium our body requires. One serving of nuts contains about 1000% of your daily allowance.
P1bAO TIL there are more possible QR code combinations than there are atoms in the universe.
kOmv1 TIL Wild Rice is a complete protein, the only grain that is complete (if a bit low in lysine). Also the second highest protein grain.
wLYeJ TIL that in the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympics, Haiti and Lichtenstein discovered they had identical flags. The following year, Lichtenstein would add a crown to their flag to help differentiate it from Haiti