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TIL that Leon Jackson, who won The X Factor UK in December 2007, had only been singing for 11 months at that point

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69A5w TIL in September 1968, Russian cosmonauts fooled NASA into thinking they were landing on the moon using radio relays from Zond 5, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon. The cosmonauts knew they would never make it to the moon so they decided to engage in “a little bit of hooliganism.”
PjZG TIL A mysterious lake, over 10m deep, appeared overnight in the Tunisian desert.
vAaR TIL of Najih Al-Baldawi, an Iraqi man who sacrificed himself by hugging a suicide bomber as they detonated inside a shrine, reducing the force of the blast and saving dozens of people.
5GRB TIL there is a village in Nebraska with only one resident. She acts as mayor, and even pays taxes to herself.
JXRl TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.