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TIL That up to 62% of Icelanders believe in Elves

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WWBo TIL that barns are actually red because in the late 1700s, Farmers began experimenting with ways to make their own protective paint with lime, red iron oxide, and skimmed milk with linseed oil which kept the barn warm during wintertime.
xVBBw TIL that naturally occurring magnets (lodestones) are only formed when lightning strikes magnetite, an iron ore.
X0Z5k TIL the Tuberous Bush Cricket has the largest testicles to body mass ratio in the animal kingdom. To put this into perspective, the weight average for men in the US is roughly 197.6 pounds. 14% of that would be almost 27 pounds.
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