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TIL that Iceland sits atop the North-Atlantic ridge, splitting the island across both the North American and Eurasian plates.

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095M TIL due to the decline in fertility that tends to accompany wealth, human population is expected to stabilize at near 9 billion by 2050.
l7JjK TIL 28th June (and my birthday) is the perfect day of the year mathematically, with its factors adding up to the number itself.
yQPrv TIL of Saturn, an American Alligator born in 1936, who is rumoured to have met Hitler and survived the Battle of Berlin as one of only 96 out of 16000 animals from the Berlin Zoo to survive WW2. He was moved to Moscow Zoo after the war where he still lives today.
Bgybd TIL Brazilian athlete Adhemar Ferreira da Silva was a polyglot having learnt English, Finnish, French, Japanese, Italian, German and Spanish. He created the victory lap after winning gold medal at the 1952 Olympics. He also acted in 1959 film "Black Orpheus" which won a prize at Cannes Film Festival
nDRY TIL that a Viking General, Sigurd the Mighty, was killed by a severed head of his enemy. He had attached the severed head to his saddle and the heads teeth grazed his leg and gave him an infection that he died from.