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TIL Iceland’s earliest settlers were probably Irish monks.

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erKb TIL a Japanese high schooler struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx back-to-back. Rejecting an offer from manager Connie Mack, he went on to pitch three no-hitters in the Japanese league before being killed in WW2.
xVkP7 TIL that at least one person has been killed by a lava lamp. In 2004, Philip Quinn decided to heat his lava lamp on the kitchen stove. The lamp exploded, shooting a shard of glass into his heart and ending his life.
D1xRP TIL there is no Korean last name 'Lee'; rather, the second most common family name is 'I', but since single letter names are so uncommon in English, almost all Koreans with that family name choose to go by Lee when representing their name in Roman characters.
OKe4 TIL that research indicates black americans really do tip waiters less than whites americans, but likely as part of a cycle: waiters resist serving African Americans, or they provide poorer service, which discourages blacks from patronizing table-service restaurants.
1eyP TIL of the concept of posthuman god, the idea that humans of the future might be so intelligent and technologically sophisticated that their behavior would not possibly be comprehensible to current humans, in other words, that they would appear ‘god-like’ by present-day human standards