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TIL Iceland was uninhabited until c. 870AD
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TIL the first time the word “astronaut” was used to refer to a human traveling in space was in Neil R. Jones’s short story “The Death’s Head Meteor,” in 1930
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TIL In Pennsylvania (USA), you can be on the hook for your parents’ debt without your knowledge or consent, and it’s completely legal
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TIL the F150 is 79.9 inches wide because trucks over 80 inches need commercial truck identification lights. These lights can be seen on the Ford Raptor front grill for example. (Raptor is +86 inches wide)
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TIL that Dung Beetles are the only non-human animals to navigate and Orient themselves using the Milky Way.
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TIL when the town of Exeter, Massachusetts renamed itself to honor Benjamin Franklin in 1778, they asked Franklin to donate a bell to the town church. Franklin responded with a donation of books instead, which formed the founding collection of America's first public library.