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TIL in 1998 more than half of Icelanders believed in elves.

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Wk7X9 TIL despite a 1998 GAO poll for the upcoming $1 coin warning that 65% of the public preferred the Statue of Liberty design and 27% preferred Sacagawea, the U.S. Mint decided to open a competition for the Sacagawea design. The coin was ultimately rejected by the public.
vlpD TIL that in 1967 a history teacher performed an experiment with his class to find out why people allowed the Nazis to commit terrible acts. He brainwashed them using Nazi ideals and at the end of the week had several hundred teenage followers under his complete control before he revealed the truth
9YpN6 TIL that Queen Elizabeth uses signals with her handbag to send secret messages to her staff
W09N TIL Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor oscar for ‘Silence of the Lambs’ with only 16 minutes of screentime.
4GAg TIL the serious actors in Airplane! were specifically instructed and directed to “play it like they don’t know they’re in a comedy. Like no one told them.”