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TIL Iceland’s earliest settlers were probably Irish monks.

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rR5gw TIL that in 2005, cabbage was banned from Korean baseball after frozen cabbage leaves fell out of Doosan Bears' pitcher Park Myung-Hwan's cap mid-game. After an emergency meeting, KBO officials ruled that cabbage leaves are considered an “alien material” that is capable of disrupting a game.
BrW7d TIL Boeings own QA staff sued the company for deliberately using cheaper sub-standard parts.. and lost because the FAA gave Boeing a clean chit
neQpB TIL the insulin pumps used by at least 350K Americans with diabetes (couldn't find the global number) were invented as a direct result of some of the earliest NASA technology from the Apollo program.
v1Jj TIL that The Room’s popularity as one of the best bad movies of all time can be traced back to a single critic, who after attending a screening in an empty theater, called all his friends, encouraging them to come to the theater and join him in mocking the film for its next showing
16QN4 TIL during a 2016 expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster, a 30-ft model of the Monster was discovered at the bottom of Loch Ness - a lost prop from the 1970 film 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.