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TIL that Icelanders have no family names. Instead, their surname is just their father’s name plus “son” or “dottir”

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JY584 TIL Tom Cruise was diagnosed with dyslexia at 6 yrs old and graduated high school as a functional illiterate, relying on his sister for help with schoolwork. He was in movies like Taps and Risky Business before learning to read in 1986 when he became a scientologist, the year Top Gun was released.
R7Gy7 TIL George C. Parker, the conman who fraudulently "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge multiple times, dodged his first prison sentence by grabbing a sheriff's uniform and walking out of the courthouse
1a5MW TIL more than half of all new PhDs in the US are fake
kJJrm TIL that the set of the film "Good Burger" frequently stank because the meat they used would spoil.
OoyJ4 TIL a bone marrow transplant recipient’s blood type eventually changes to match the blood type of the donor.