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TIL 1 in 5,000 babies are born without an anus opening.

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wLGWY TIL Iceland was settled first by norse people. While Old Norse (the language) changed over time and became Norwegian, no such changes happened in Iceland. So Icelandic is more or less the same as Old Norse
dDNrK TIL the Swedish Air Force built roads to serve as emergency airfields in case of a war, even putting aprons at the ends of the backup runways.
Egx5X TIL For two years, 1968-1970, KFC had a spinoff: Kentucky Roast Beef and Ham
9lG7 TIL that Cops is the longest running Reality TV show ever. It started due to a Writers Guild of America strike.
mxONR TIL William Leonard Pickard, manufacturer of more than 90% of the world's LSD supply in the '90s, predicted the Fentanyl crisis 20 years prior to it happening.