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TIL Iceland’s earliest settlers were probably Irish monks.

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78mjZ TIL Laurence Olivier hit Maggie Smith in the face so hard she was knocked unconscious during a 1964 production of Othello.
GAlyN TIL about Joseph Crater, a New York State Supreme Court Justice who mysteriously vanished amid a political scandal in August 1930. He was last seen leaving a restaurant on West 45th Street in Manhattan after having dinner with his mistress and a lawyer friend. His disappearance was never solved.
wmw8 TIL there are 24 times more empty houses in the United States than homeless people.
jN7Op TIL the sun is made up of plasma where hydrogen accounts for about 73.4% of the total mass or 92% of the total number of atoms. The other basic building block is helium, which accounts for 25% of the mass or 7.8% of the total number of atoms. Every second 6 million tons of hydrogen turns into helium
QNvjE TIL that Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after being burned at the stake.