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TIL that by 2017 smartphone manufacturers, including Apple and Nokia, will have to switch to microUSB in order to comply with an EU ruling.

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wLPXW TIL that in 1924, two men named Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the "perfect crime" and show their intellectual superiority by killing a 14 year old boy and not getting caught. They were caught in less than two weeks.
v1eDx TIL that over 10% of Canada’s population are descended from impoverished British children that were sent to work on Canadian farms between 1869 and 1939.
e4kE TIL In Iceland, around 90% of homes are heated from geothermal sources.
8aLYK TIL that the Northern Royal Albatross take their first flight after about 8 months of age, and then spend the next 3-5 years at sea, never touching land during that time. Many then return to their headland where they born so they can then breed, having flown over 190,000km per year during that time.
0ADL TIL children born in Iceland to Icelandic women and American or British servicemen were often given the last name Hansson meaning “his son” as their fathers were either unknown or had left Iceland.