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TIL Norway is 39% atheist

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awdNA TIL that Oak Bluffs on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, has been a traditional summer destination to upper class African-Americans for over a century. Though many had lived and worked in the area as early as the 1600s, by the late 1800s it had developed into an exclusive resort town.
a8JpM TIL that Oliver Stone named the protagonist of Scarface (1983) after his favorite football player - Joe Montana
0w1Jp TIL the line of thinking 'If I Can't Have It, Neither Can You' is called 'Crab Mentality' because when a crab in a bucket is trying to escape, the others will pull it down
n7oo TIL through coarticulation, your brain decides the placement of your tongue and lips based on the sounds that follow the first letter. i.e. your lips are shaped differently for the /k/ in kid vs. /k/ in cop.
KOZ84 TIL Hitchbot, a hitchhiking robot, made it all the way across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands but failed to do the same in the U.S. because it was immediately beheaded in Philadelphia.