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TIL that Iceland is essentially free of mosquitoes

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parp TIL The German Pirate Party uses a Open Source software called liquid feedback, which lets the members create and vote on policy in a way similar to reddit and wikipedia.
NxV6 TIL that in 2001, British author Giles Foden (Last King of Scotland) compared Eminem to Robert Browning, one of the foremost Victorian poets, and remarked that “a brief examination of ‘Stan’ reveals it to have all the depth and texture of the greatest examples of English verse.”
mAmR TIL From 1956 to 1996 the Mormon Church operated a program where Native American kids would be baptized and placed in Mormon foster homes, thinking it would “lighten” them. It was based on the Mormon belief that Native Americans were originally white until God punished them by making them darker.
ADKwx TIL that the first known interstellar object detected passing through our Solar System is an asteroid called ʻOumuamua, found in 2017. It's a rocky, cigar-shaped object tumbling through space and it required a new astronomical designation: I, for Interstellar object. ʻOumuamua is designated "1I".
GYbD7 TIL in 1974, Crips leader Stanley “Tookie” “Williams encountered a body builder named Arnold Schwarzenegger who complimented Williams’ muscular physique. Decades later, Arnold Schwarzenegger would deny Williams a clemency decision that would’ve saved him from a state-administered lethal injection.