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TIL that the first people to discover magnetic rocks were the Chinese. They called them “the loving stones” because the stones love metal the way parents love children

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lo7VB TIL Iceland has one of the largest gun ownership rates in the world, and yet has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
9YydM TIL almost 20 years after the attacks experts are still working to identify remains of 9/11 victims
Wv4d TIL that in the 70’s, Chuck Berry toured with only a guitar, finding some local bands for each show “confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music” and not even giving them a set list “and just expected the musicians to follow his lead”.
4XJ6N TIL Typhoon Karen was the most powerful tropical cyclone to strike the island of Guam, and has been regarded as one of the most destructive events in the island's history. It was classified as a Category 5 super typhoon.
LQ6Pd TIL in Norway, 'Odd', and 'Even' are common male first names. It is not unusual for a man to be named Odd-Even