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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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aw6Z0 TIL: A lot of sand is Parrotfish poop. They each poop around 800 lbs of sand a year that ends up making our beaches.
a8vpZ TIL A “pneumonia front” is a unique weather phenomena to the western Lake Michigan shore where temperatures can drop 20-40+ F in less than an hour.
W7yN9 TIL that almost 100,000 Vietnamese "volunteers" served on the western front during WW1
0wg7y TIL men ages 20 to 34 have lower grip and pinch strength than the same aged guys did three decades ago, and that the average grip strength for men ages 25 to 29 is nearly 26 pounds lower today than it was before.
5lpD TIL a man renovated a three story hotel specifically to kill people. It included stairways to nowhere and a maze of over 100 windowless rooms. He killed as many as 200 people in it. The skeletons of his victims were sold to medical schools.