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TIL there are only 210 people in the armed forces of Iceland

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wAEJ TIL that lost WWII planes were discovered in mint condition in a Myanmar jungle in 2012- almost 140 were found still in crates underground
mxJwM TIL that one of the most expensive wine bottles that was never to have been drunk was a 1787 Margaux from Thomas Jeffersons Collection, the owner brought it to a restaurant and a waiter knocked it over. Insurance payout was $225,000 in 1989
rR0dy TIL about William Breckinridge, a captain of the Confederacy who later renounced the views that led him to fight for them and became a racial equality advocate. He also represented blacks in court as a lawyer and was even noted by a black lawyer that he had helped many blacks in their law careers.
Qgn9 TIL that a teen secretly lived in AOL’s HQ for 2 months, eating free food, using gym & showers, sleeping in conference rooms while working on his start-up. Everyone assumed he worked there
ne57G TIL J.R.R Tolkien was trained as a codebreaker during WWII, and would have worked with Alan Turing to crack Germany’s Enigma Machine, if he hadn’t turned down the offer first.