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TIL that Iceland leads the world in books written, published and sold per person. One in ten Icelanders will publish a book during their lifetime.

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wo5n8 TIL that on the landing of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, the ICAO organization that gives code letters for airports issued its first non-Earth code: JZRO.
d81r8 TIL about Eric Morse who was 5 years old when he was murdered by two 11 year olds who threw him out of a window in Chicago
j7Qj TIL: A Billionaire hedge fund founder payed 800 New York teachers an extra $15,000 due to poor teacher salaries
BrBWW TIL that Ashton Kutcher and Scarlett Johansson both have twins.
AQg7 TIL in 1983 a man climbed the North Tower of the World Trade Center…to “call attention to the inability to rescue trapped occupants from the upper levels of skyscrapers.”