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TIL that mosquitos can be a nuisance for everyone but not for the people in Iceland. Simply because they don't exist there:

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Y7knr TIL When William The Conqueror of England died, the body exploded when they tried to stuff him into the too-small stone coffin.
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eMrJ TIL that James Earl Jones once used the handle “Darth Vader” while travelling across the country and spoke, in character, to truck drivers on the CB radio. Apparently, the drivers would really freak out so he stopped doing it.
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