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TIL in 1998 more than half of Icelanders believed in elves.
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TIL the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 was so strong that the vibration was felt and detected by an orbiting satellite
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TIL Russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski was working on the Synchrotron U-70, the largest Soviet particle accelerator in 1978. A proton beam measuring about 200,000 rads entered his skull, and 300,000 rads when it exited. Due to nerve destruction, the left half of his face was frozen and doesn’t age.
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TIL that during WW2 an operation to destroy German heavy water plant (in captured Norway) had to delayed as a cooperative Norwegian caretaker was missing his spectacles, the bomb fuse was lit only after caretaker specs were found (as during the war, new eyeglasses were nearly impossible to obtain).
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TIL every baby born in Korea is one year old and all Koreans turn a year older on January First. This helps maintain the age hierarchy vital in Korea.
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TIL the last naval battle between battleships in history occurred in 1944