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TIL in Iceland people light candles for the huldufólk, hidden elves, during New Year's Eve to help the huldufólk find a new home for the year.

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woEl8 TIL that the first political assassination in Roman history took place in 133 B.C when tribune Tiberius Gracchus tried to redistribute land to the poor, and was promptly beaten to death with wooden chairs by the Senate
nbGP Today I learned that the spikes at the end of Stegosaurus’s tail are called “thagomizers” because of a Far Side comic, published in 1982, that featured a cave man pointing to a diagram of a Stegosaurus tail with the caption “Now this end is called the Thagomizer–after the late Thag Simmons.”
N7AXE TIL 60's social activist Abbie Hoffman and author of Fuck the System ,Revolution for the Hell of It, and Steal This Book , had an FBI file that was 13,262 pages long. or, about 11 times that of Tolstoy's War and Peace
NXpDb TIL when Starbucks was developing Pumpkin Spice Latte's, their research and development team poured espresso shots on pumpkin pies, tasting different combos to determine the best ratio of cinnamon/nutmeg to coffee/steamed milk. It wasn't until 2015 that they started putting real pumpkin in the drink
nQEo TIL in Norse mythology, during the events of Ragnörak, there is a ship made entirely of the untrimmed nails of the dead that will carry hordes to do battle with the Gods. It’s important to keep those nails trimmed so you don’t contribute to building it.