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TIL in 2016 12% of the entire population of Iceland traveled to France to cheer on their football (soccer) team during the Euro Championships

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MeRNm TIL if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs arrived just 30 seconds later, it would have landed in deep ocean water which would have absorbed much of the force of the impact. The resulting extinction would have been less severe, many dinosaur species would have survived, and humans would not exist
6ERrY TIL in 2007, the Oklahoma State Senate passed a bill declaring the watermelon as the official state vegetable.
gMWdD TIL that the band playing most of the songs on Michael Jackson's Thriller album was Toto.
600m TIL that a 14 year old teenager has written a letter to the government explaining how they can save around $400 million on ink by simply changing the font on their documents.
k7Oe TIL Dr. Seuss pronounced it in the German manner, “soice”. He realized that Americans naturally read the name as “soose” and went with it “to be associated with—Mother Goose”