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TIL Iceland’s earliest settlers were probably Irish monks.

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6K4w TIL : A merchant was sentenced to face a lion in the arena when he was caught selling fake jewels to the Empress, when the cage opened however a chicken walked out, the Emperor then proclaimed that “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him”.The merchant was allowed to go home then.
oBDQY TIL Back in 1985 Nintendo sued Magnavox, the company who made the first video game console, and tried to invalidate their patents
grEnD TIL about The Linked Headstones of Het Oude Kerkhof. A husband and wife who could not be buried next to one another because he was Protestant and she was Catholic find a way to be symbolically with each other through a linked hands on their headstones.
gxL TIL Down Syndrome males are sterile (aside from one documented case)
RDL4 TIL that Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” had a $6,000,000 budget but only made $1900