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TIL: People in Iceland genuinely believe in elves. They live in the forests and they have an elf church.

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l0x1 TIL that India is credited with being one of the first civilizations to inoculate their children in times of pestilence to boost immunity and stop the spread of disease (1,000 years ago). They made a small incision into the child’s arm, then rubbed it with Smallpox scabs and a thin cloth.
v16rK TIL Finland has a self-care practice called pantsdrunk. It's recommended that, after coming home from work, citizens take their pants off and drink.
rRwwd TIL that in the 1700s, Queen Caroline of Great Britain had smallpox innoculation trialled on six prisoners in return for commuting their death sentences. When this was successful, she innoculated her own children, popularising the process.
R5Nk1 TIL about the Readymix logo geoglyph, a 3.2 km × 1.6 km (2.0 mi × 0.99 mi) logo carved into the ground in outback Australia in 1965. For a lone time of it was the largest such signage of its kind in the world.
0APj TIL American Sign Language is most closely related to French Sign Language because a British institution was unwilling to share their methods.