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TIL Due to Iceland's small population of less than 400,000 people, there's an anti-incest app that alerts you if your chatting up someone who you're too closely related to

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XblQ TIL more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500 companies in 2010 were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant
4knLb TIL that the oldest continuously-operating tattoo parlor in the world is in Jerusalem and has been tattooing pilgrims since 1300.
4kodR TIL that the movie "Never Been Kissed" is based on a true story where a 26-year old reporter went undercover in a San Francisco high school as a student.
b6gXQ TIL about the My Lai Massacre. Where The US Army Murdered an estimated 500 Unarmed Civilians
4kgOa TIL “Bésame Mucho” (“Kiss Me a Lot”) was written in 1941 by Consuelo Velasquez, who was about 15 years old at the time, in bolero style. Inspired by the Nightingale Aria from the opera “Goyescas” by Enrique Granados, she said that she had never been kissed when she wrote the song.