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TIL that Iceland, the shopping centre sued Iceland the nation for trademark infringement

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loV75 TIL about the Two Headed Boy of Bengal born in 1783. The second head was upside down with the neck pointed straight up. Shockingly, the second head was fully functional. This extremely rare type of parasitic twinning is known as Craniopagus parasiticus, occurring in about 2 to 3 of 5,000,000 births.
EgDyx TIL that in 2013, Chinese doctors have saved a man's severed hand by grafting it to his ankle
wodM TIL that before alarm clocks were invented, there was a profession called a knocker-up, which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they were awake. It lasted into the 1920s.
ADwEn TIL In Jurassic park (1993), the insect trapped in amber and which made the cloning of dinosaur possible was actually elephant mosquito. It's the only mosquito that doesn't suck blood, so cloning wasn't actually possible.
YaXB TIL in the past 3500 years there has only been 230 years of peace in the civilized world