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TIL about the Cod wars which were a series of confrontations between Iceland and the U.K. over fishing rights in the North Atlantic. There were three in total all of which ended in Icelandic victories.

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b61YN TIL about the man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane and it took him 10 years to do
mx1Zo TIL Hans Zimmer scored the Boss Baby
59bP TIL the toxic surfactant, Corexit, pumped into the gulf by the hundreds of thousands of gallons by BP after the Deepwater Horizon spill, was 52 more times toxic when in combination with oil. That is to say that the oil left alone by itself would have been less toxic and easier to clean up.
XDxQ TIL that a class of 8 - 10 year olds conceived of, executed and published a significant scientific paper on bee behavior that was the Editor’s choice in Science and the 2nd most downloaded paper on Biology Letters. It is written in “kid-speak” and its figures are colored with crayon.
65LJ TIL that during the film The Big Lebowski, the Dude consumes 12 drinks and smokes 5 joints. There is an entire community of people dedicated to watching the movie and mimicking the consumption of the exact same menu of food, alcohol and drugs. The Dude abides.