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TIL That most of Iceland's population is in North America. The North American and European tectonic plates meet in Iceland, and the majority of the country's population lives on the North American side.

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oBnVK TIL that Finland was the first nation in the world that implemented universal suffrage (in 1906) and allowed all adult citizens to run for office, regardless of sex or race, and thus was the first true democracy in the world. The following year, the first female MPs in world history were elected.
X0QeP TIL that until it closed in 2012 amid animal welfare concerns, Wildlife Wonderland Park near Bass, Victoria, was home to the Giant Earthworm Museum. Inside the worm-shaped museum, visitors could crawl through a magnified replica of a worm burrow and a simulated worm's stomach.
p8D6Z TIL that in 1995 in Cambodia, a same-sex marriage was legally recognized by the Cambodian government despite same-sex marriage being constitutionally banned.
4kb75 TIL plants can get addicted to Nicotine. At University of Calgary, there is an Atrium of which all the plants died after smoking was banned indoors during the 90’s, and the cause is attributed to Nicotine addiction.
pY6xQ TIL that a bullet fee is a charge assessed to the family of executed prisoners. They literally would charge for the bullet used. Bullet fees have been levied in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, as well as in the People's Republic of China, and Nazi Germany.