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TIL 1 in 10 Icelanders publish a book in their lifetime

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yVPdX TIL about Floyd Allen from Carroll County, VA who was sentenced to one year in jail. Rather than go to jail, Allen and his family pulled out guns in the courthouse and killed the Judge, the sheriff, the prosecutor and 2 others in a violent shoot out. Allen was later executed for his escape attempt.
b4DN TIL that as a part of Body Measurement Project Nickolay Lamm created the most typical of American men
Vgw0 TIL that in the Simpsons opening theme when maggie is scanned, the register flashes “$847.63” which was the average price to support a baby monthly in the US at the time of the shows debut in 1989.
jNnAn TIL around 140000 men were convicted under Paragraph 175, a law in German Criminal Code penalising homosexuality that lasted from 1871 to... 1994. Also, "criminals" that were in Nazi camps due to their homosexuality, weren't released from camps after liberation and their "sentence" were still valid.
QJlna TIL that the Hoover damn contains enough concrete to pave a 16-foot-wide, 8-inch-thick road from San Francisco to New York City