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TIL Iceland was uninhabited until c. 870AD

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9YPM7 TIL that around 2,000 coyotes live in and around downtown Chicago. One GPS-collared coyote and his mate even raised a litter of healthy pups inside a secret concrete den in the parking lot of Soldier Field Stadium
BgxKr TIL The South Atlantic Anomaly is an area where the Van Allen radiation belt is closer to the earth's surface (200km from the surface). The SAA has caused false solar flare alarms, led to the destruction of the Hitomi telescope, and crashes laptops.
epOpD TIL Female play-by-play broadcasters are on the rise in men's sports. So is the criticism.
1rxO TIL in the 2005 film ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ the chocolate river was made of actual chocolate instead of CGI. It was made of about 192,000 gallons of chocolate.
JYZmm TIL that Legionnaires' disease is named such because of an outbreak in 1976 which killed 29 and infected 182 American Legion members during an annual state convention. This new bacteria was found to be coming from the air-conditioning units on the hotel roof.