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TIL almost no babies are born with Down Syndrome in Iceland, because nearly 100 percent of women who receive a positive test for the condition choose to terminate the pregnancy.

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x6p6g TIL that in the Battle of the Nile, Admiral Francois-Paul Brueys's hands, face, and arms were mauled by cannonfire: he continued to command, when a cannonball severed both his legs. He then ordered his men to strap him to an armchair and continued to order his men until his ship, L'Orient, blew up.
4k9VN TIL the founders of Adidas (Adolf Dassler) and Puma (Rudolf Dassler) were not only rivals in business, but both were members of the Nazi Party and are brothers who had an intense sibling rivalry.
pKJb TIL Detroit once had a tourist attraction more popular than the Statue of Liberty. The Ford Rotunda was built for the 1934 World’s Fair and was the fifth most visited site in the U.S. before burning to the ground in 1962
xVba7 TIL some Viking raiders converted to Islam and became cheese traders after their attacks were repulsed by Muslim Spain
VBXpQ TIL during WW2 the Japanese sunk the USS Indianapolis, the captain of the Indianopolis, Charles B. McVay, would receive harrowing letters/phonecalls from the parents of the fallen sailors blaming him for their childrens' death over the years. He died in 1968, via a self-inflicted gunshot to the head