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TIL that there isn’t a single McDonalds chain in Iceland

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YpnZP TIL Most Scientists Thought Stories of Rocks Falling from the Sky Weren't Real Until Meteorites Fell in Normandy, France in 1803
wB0E TIL that in 1909 two chemists invented an industrial process to harvest nitrogen from the air. Today, the nitrogen from that process keeps roughly 3.5 billion people alive.
Bx9r TIL when coming to power in January 1933, the Nazi Party passed a comprehensive set of animal protection laws, with Hitler saying “In the new Reich, no more animal cruelty will be allowed”
0wN9N TIL There is an artificial hill in Italy, over 100 feet tall, made entirely of empty olive oil pots, carefully placed over a period of 250 years by ancient Romans.
pYn5Z TIL that adding gallium to aluminum makes it as weak as paper!