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TIL that Iceland was once covered in trees until the Vikings came and cut them down to make room for sheep

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PoKL TIL the small cloth placed over the back of your chair on a plane or a train is called an ‘antimacassar’. They are so named because they were originally used to protect the fabric of the chair from macassar oil; a very famous hair product in the Victorian period.
kJav4 TIL It takes more than 4 million average-sized farts a year to generate enough biogas to power a large-sized home.
BrmEL TIL about Yoshie Shiratori, who broke out of prison four times, and most famously was the only person in history to break out of Abishiri prison in Hokkaido, Japan.
0wjEv TIL there is a house in New Orleans, they call it the Rising Sun, but it’s not a brothel as singer Eric Burdon once described it. It's a bed and breakfast run by a Louisianan couple who love the legend and have collected over 40 versions of the Animals' song. Their B&B features ample brothelabilia.
0wK4N TIL there was a sex cult community called Rajneeshpuram in Oregon back in the 1980s. They had poisoned over 750 people to commit voter fraud and had multiple assassination attempts on the Wasco county officials although none of the assassination succeeded.