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TIL that The parliament of Iceland, established in 930, is the oldest active parliament in the world.

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0wjY1 TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them
X0rVR TIL: Young children make 'scale errors' where they genuinely try to use an object that is inappropriately sized. Such as trying to sit and slide down a toy slide. And it's inversely related to pretend play
PyMO TIL that on the set of the Wizard of Oz, the actors playing the Scarecrow, Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wizard resented being “upstaged” by a woman and refused to even talk to Judy Garland between takes. The only friend Garland made on set was Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch.
E1GVx TIL during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the Hungarian Army, officially fighting on the German side, secretly assisted the Polish resistance, launching "ambushes" on the Poles and then "retreating" immediately, leaving behind massive amounts of weapons and supplies for the Poles to "capture."
rNNj0 TIL caffeine makes the pituitary gland tell the SNS to release epinephrine in the body which tricks the body into thinking it’s in a state of emergency.