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TIL that Gaelic monks from Ireland may have settled in Iceland as long as a century before the Vikings settled there in 874.

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Ege0 TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”
v1lKr TIL: Uranus was originally name "George" by its founder in honour his patron King George III
YyD7 TIL a pejorative German name for the British is Inselaffe, which means ‘island monkey’.
rNdMW TIL before his career took off, Patrick Swayze and his wife had a carpentry business. Though Swayze didn’t know much about carpentry at first, he learned a lot through books, and their business ended being very profitable. At one point, they even renovated the kitchen of actress Jaclyn Smith.
NXE5E TIL that the Freedom Bell is a 2:1 scale replica of the Liberty Bell that was cast in The Netherlands. It was a bicentennial gift from the American Legion to the nation’s youth and sat in storage for several years before being installed at Union Station in 1981.