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TIL 1 in 10 Icelanders publish a book in their lifetime

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D1Wme TIL about Benford's Law - if you get a bunch of random numbers, the most common leading digit will be the number one (around 30%)
OAo6 TIL John Adams said “There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.” Despite this, nothing was written in the Constitution about political parties
WkjA TIL J. D. Tippit was a police officer with the Dallas Police who, according to two government investigations, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald’s initial arrest was for Tippit’s murder, not Kennedy’s
9YNeX TIL that both the 1974 and 2013 adaptations of The Great Gatsby won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Bl7d TIL the leader of the US nuclear regulatory agency is Mr. Burns