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TIL That up to 62% of Icelanders believe in Elves

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X0E9j TIL the most distant individual star we've ever seen, Earendel, was detected because of a chance alignment of the Hubble telescopes instruments and a huge galaxy cluster that warped space and acted as a gravitational lens.
WoAX TIL General Sherman used confederate POWs to clear landmines that were killing his troops
NVrb TIL that in 1961 a B52 broke apart over Goldsboro, NC while carrying two fully armed 3.8 megaton thermonuclear bombs. One fell to Earth, breaking apart. The other went through 5 of 6 steps needed for detonation including deploying its parachute and charging its detonation capacitors.
gj8D TIL that IBM was so powerful in 1983 that people feared that its PCjr home computer would destroy Apple, Commodore, and all other competitors. The PCjr became “one of the biggest flops in the history of computing”.
JnyB TIL Cats are the most popular pets in the world and that 1 out of every 3 American households have one.