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TIL Norway wanted to give Finland a mountain for its 100th birthday

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j7ER TIL in 1904 A Swedish sailor shipwrecked on an island in Papua New Guinea inhabited by cannibalistic tribals. He was carried to their king, who’s daughter fell in love with him. He married the king’s daughter and after his death, became king of the Island.
E1L8o TIL That the production staff of the film 1917 (2019) had to put signs around one of the filming locations warning walkers in the area not to be alarmed at the artificial body parts strewn around.
W7Q5o TIL The percentage of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is zero or close to zero in people from African populations, and is about 1 to 2 percent in people of European or Asian background.
6M6J TIL nearly one in three people in the Arab world is illiterate, including nearly half of all women in the region
NXvXP TIL about the Argument from incomplete devastation. The argument is a form of argument from observed miracles. Plane crashes, 200 died, 1 survived, there is a God.