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TIL the Tamagotchi won its creators the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics "for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets."

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Yp1PP TIL that the largest fossilized human turd ever found, measuring 8"×2" ( 20 cm by 5 cm ), came from a sick 9th century Viking and it rests at the Jórvík Viking center in the city of York, England.
0GY1 TIL burning man is destroying the only suitable land speed record track in the US and is causing significant environmental damage to the fragile desert
5VMar TIL that the most recent of Wayne Gretzky's 60 NHL records was set some time after his 1999 retirement. He averaged 1.921 points per game, which was second only to Mario Lemieux (2.005). Lemieux later came out of retirement and lowered his own average, moving Gretzky to the number one spot.
p8Zo8 TIL of Soda locomotive, a fireless locomotive that ran on sodium hydroxide. When steam came in contact with the sodium hydroxide, it would generate enough heat to actually run the boiler and generate more steam and propel the locomotive forward.
6ElrZ TIL Iceland used to have a lot of tree cover and the Vikings caused some of the worlds worst environmental degradation