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TIL Iceland has a genealogy book containing details of every Icelander going back as far as the 9th century

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nev7d TIL The Bobbit worm, which attacks its prey with scissor-like jaws, is named after Lorena Bobbitt. She cut off her husband's penis while he was asleep in bed.
vMA8 TIL There is a non-profit organization called “House With A Heart” that takes in and cares for senior dogs, many with special needs, that have been abandoned by their owners. The facility operates as a hospice, seeing to it that older dogs are not consigned to dying in shelters, or worse.
RpWw TIL that there is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, thats written language is still completely unknown today
ANKr4 TIL At least 11 people have been born in Antarctica. The first was Emilio Palma, born in 1978 to Argentine parents at Esperanza, Hope Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula.
L959 TIL Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl wrote and recorded a series of songs in 1990 and 1991. He declined to introduce the songs to Kurt Cobain thinking it would disrupt Kurt’s writing process. The songs were later released under the Pseudonym “Late!” On an album called “Pocketwatch”.