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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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rNk9w TIL one of the proposed definitions for the meter was the seconds pendulum, which takes 1 second for each swing
XWyQ TIL Tom Carvel began selling ice cream out of his truck in 1929. One day he had a flat tire, so he pulled over and began selling his melting ice cream to vacationers driving by. They enjoyed the softer version more than the fully frozen dessert, and the Carvel soft-serve business was born.
Zljo TIL an elderly man investigated for having large sums of cash but no visible means of support was found to have 1,258 paintings in his apartment, over 500 of which suspected as having been looted by the Nazis.
WN78 TIL that after seeing Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the astronauts of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to leave Earth’s orbit, were tempted to radio back reporting the appearance of a black monolith.
RK58 TIL Barry Goldwater said, And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. “