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TIL there have been at least 600 polar bears that have made the swim/ice drift to Iceland since the settlement of the island.

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e0rWE TIL about Leonid "Tarzan" Fainberg, a Ukranian mobster, who attempted to purchase a Soviet diesel submarine for the Cali cocaine cartel. He also owned a strip club named Porky's.
pkGb TIL Heroin was created to be a less addictive substitute to Morphine
xVl1D TIL during the Crosby by-election (UK) in 1981, a 22-year old candidate legally changed his name from John Desmond Lewis to Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel, in homage to a character from a Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch.
YpypG TIL Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany.
MenVK TIL The spike on the German Pickelhaube helmet was supposed to function as a blade tip, designed to deflect sword blows aimed at the head. The Pickelhaube offered almost no protection from bullets & shrapnel to German soldiers during WWI.