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TIL: That there is a church in Iceland where you can worship the norse gods

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gZx4 TIL - that an explorer and adventurer went missing in the Amazon in 1925 searching for El Dorado. Since then, around 100 people have died trying to find him, and as recently as 1996 an expedition to find his remains only got out after paying a ransom to their Kalapalo captors.
4XEMJ TIL that RH null is a blood so rare, only 40 people in the world have it. It's a universal donor among many people with other rare blood types, and as such has been called the "golden blood" because its life saving capability is enormous.
YpY4d TIL Sirius XM was once two separate services.
epN6L Today I Learned that there is a genus of parasitic barnacles that can turn male crabs female
D1bOr TIL That the Twinkie diet study, which aimed to prove that only calories mattered for weight loss, was secretly (at the time) funded by Coca-Cola.