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TIL that Icelanders overthrew their government in 2009, refused to bail out the banks and formed a citizens committee to rewrite the constitution to prevent corporate fraud.

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oRBr TIL that the pied piper was a legend used to explain the actual disappearance of hundreds of children.
ODLe TIL Amazon and Congo were likely one river before Africa and S.America drifted apart.
neg7W TIL according to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the average age of first marriage for women in 2017 was 27.4 years and for men it was 29.5 years. In 1990, the average age of marriage for women was 24; in 1980 it was 22; and back in the 1950s, it was only 20.
L7eV TIL of Robert Johnson, a blues musician who played on street corners and died at 27 with little success. 23 years later, in 1961, his LP was reissued and became a huge influence on rock ‘n roll, including Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, who called him “the most important blues singer that ever lived.”
v15K4 TIL that old or worn US flags are burned.