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TIL a 2006 survey suggested that 55.5% of Icelanders are certain about the existence of elves, or are open to the possibility

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v1Ykx TIL A satellite launched in 1978, and thought to be shutdown in 1997, was actually discovered in 2008 still be fully operational with plenty of fuel. Through efforts of crowd funding and approval from NASA, a group successfully established contact and fired the engines for the first time since 1987
4EEN TIL that human intelligence is a form of sexual ornamentation, like a Peacock’s feathers or a Deer’s antlers
x64M0 TIL the last officially reported lynching in the US was 1981, Michael Donald, and the last officially reported racially incited murder was 2020 of Ahmaud Arbery.
QJR1d Today I learned that the country with the highest average male height is Montenegro at 6 foot 0 inches
VB7n4 TIL that Hermann Göring's father was the colonial governor of German Southwest Africa