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TIL Greenland was so remote that no-one realised the Viking settlements had died out until 1721, when missionaries visited the island expecting to find Norsemen who may have relapsed to paganism and instead found ruins.

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d8YEZ TIL Mahasweta Devi wrote over 100 novels and over 20 collections of short stories primarily written in Bengali. She had claimed that her stories aren't her creation, they are the stories of the people of her country, with a focus on marginalized citizens and women
W7VgX TIL Poetica Vaginal. Joe Davis an artist and research affiliate at MIT transmitted the sounds of vaginal contractions towards neighbouring star systems. To do so, he recorded the vaginal contractions of ballet dancers.
LkKQp TIL T-rex babies were fluffy.
neOXd TIL of The Olgas, Australia’s lesser known ‘giant rock’. It’s highest point is more than 200meters taller than Uluru.
ADl7n TIL Mindscape, The Game Dev company that developed Lego Island, fired their Dev team the day before release, so that they wouldn't have to pay them bonuses.