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TIL the US occupied Iceland during WWII, after the British invaded (in order to prevent the Germans from doing the same)

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kdDm TIL a cockatoo in Australia lived to be 100 years old.
OokD1 TIL The Apollo 10 crew tested the procedures for the Apollo 11 mission, including a descent in the Lunar Module. However, NASA reduced the amount of fuel in the lander to keep the two astronauts from being tempted to stray from their mission and steal the first moon landing.
kJ1Yg Til in the original Charlie and the chocolate factory ran into controversy with the NAACP over its depictions of Oompa-Loompas as being of "black pygmy descent" with an illustration to go along t after hearing the criticism Dahl decided to change it to be more fantastical.
N76o6 TIL a dog named Sundance (Sunny) was trained to go get a grocery list from his neighbor who is self-quarantining due to medical conditions that put her at high-risk such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and then he brings the groceries over to her front door every night.
gMOV8 TIL chipping a stone ax like early humans did 1.8 million years ago activates the same brain circuits used by modern human musicians