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TIL that the Glasgow City Council named Scrooge McDuck on a list of famous Glaswegians

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Zyxp TIL: In 2011, a man’s death was officially listed as “starvation” from a celery only diet.
rWje TIL that 2000 residents in Ramsar, Iran, receive an average of 10x the safe background radiation dose without any increase in cancer rates: several times more radiation than found in Pripyat, the ghost town near the Chernobyl power plant.
eVRL TIL 16 years after the trail of tears ended, the Choctaw Indians donated 170 dollars to relief for The Irish Potato Famine
GV7N TIL that the Greek navy maintains a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme, the HS Olympias. Kept in dry dock in Athens, it is the only ship of its kind in the world.
OG7oX TIL in 2014 a woman on an Icelandic bus tour left the group to go change clothes. When she returned she helped look for a missing woman. Eventually the searching woman realized it was her they were looking for. She wasn’t recognized in her new outfit, leading to the search.