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TIL In Iceland, around 90% of homes are heated from geothermal sources.

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GYXpE TIL: 14-year-old Roman Emperor Elagabalus was a cross-dressing, sex-obsessed torture fiend who may have invented the whoopee cushion. He loosed venomous snakes into gladiatorial crowds and released his pet lions and leopards into banquet halls or the bed chambers of his guests.
ZogB TIL The creator of the LSD discovered its hallucinogenic properties after accidentally absorbing the drug through his gloves, causing him to trip balls
4XlKw TIL a man drove through the fence of a California home before stopping in the yard. He panicked, forgot to put it in reverse and slammed into the house. Residents took his keys after finding him but moments later he had taken their car keys and accidentally drove their car into the house too, again
e0Ll6 TIL in 1913, John D. Rockefeller was worth $900 million, or 3% of the entire GDP of the United States that year. His fortune was worth a modern equivalent of $418 billion.
kYn7 TIL that despite having only 3% of America’s population, Ohio has produced 25 astronauts, including John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. The top WWI and II fighter aces (Eddie Rickenbacker and Dominic Gentile) were from Ohio. Also, Orville and Wilbur Wright are from there.