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TIL That up to 62% of Icelanders believe in Elves
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TIL Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a compound word that means "Atoning for being educable through delicate beauty."
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TIL the Zamburak, a swivel gun mounted on a camel, was used in war by several Islamic empires of the 17th-19th centuries.
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TIL Georgy Zhukov, "hero of the Soviet Union", and victorious general of the Battle of Berlin in 1945, always kept a small bag of clothes and belongings in case he was arrested by his own country's KGB. He did this until 1957.
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TIL that unicorn hunting is legal in Michigan and you can get an actual license for it. It originated from a Unicorn Hunters Club in the 70's only to gain publicity, but it grew and came to actual issued licenses for unicorn hunting.
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TIL the grandmother of Drew Barrymore, Dolores Costello, spoke with a lisp which affected her transition from silent to talking movies. Her granddaughter, Drew Barrymore, also has a lisp.