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TIL that before Alcoa could build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland, the government had to certify that the area was “elf-free”.

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Me0jb TIL that the United States occupied Greenland during WWII to prevent it from being captured by the Nazis. After the war ended, they offered to buy it from Denmark for $100 million, but Denmark refused.
PYm5J TIL that Venezuela's hyperinflation got bad in 2017, some became video game gold farmers and was seen playing games such as Runescape to sell in-game currency or characters for real currency.
R656 TIL in 2005 United Airlines terminated all of its Employee Pension Plans, which covered 134,000 workers
BOkL TIL Forever 21 puts “John 3:16” on their bags because their founders are Christian fundamentalists.
epB0g TIL in 2004, Dutch Scientists left a 'hamster wheel' in the wild, and all types of forest animals, including frogs and slugs, used it throughout the year