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TIL In Iceland, family names are not commonly used, instead the use of patronymics (or matronymics in recent years) are favored by law. A patronymic (or patronym) is based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (an avonymic), or earlier male ancestor.

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m47E TIL Meditation changes brain structure in just 8 weeks—including an increase in grey matter in the part of the brain associated with learning.
Lkaed TIL Martin Luther King Jr., in his last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," anticipated his early demise but was contented to be in the same position as the Biblical Moses, who could look on the promised land but would die before ever reaching it. King was assassinated the next day.
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