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TIL Iceland was officially treated by UK as a terrorist country in 2008.

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WkNbL TIL a man found a copy of the declaration of independence in an old picture frame he bought for $4 at a yard sale. It turned out to be a first print from the 4th July 1776. It later sold for $2.42 million, then $8.14 million.
69Vg8 TIL that when Buddy Holly died 6 months after being married, his widow inherited everything but signed 50% over to his family.
yQPbJ TIL The Navajo Nation Reservation is bigger than the state of West Virginia by almost 2 million acres
yb7J TIL There’s a building in London that reflects the Sun so perfectly, it literally melts cars.
56r TIL during WWII, 12000 conscientious objectors served the government without pay. Their many jobs included smokejumping into forest fires, being human test subjects, and working at mental hospitals, where their pacifist approach revolutionized the way mental patients were treated.