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a8kZ0 TIL before Julia child became famous for her endeavors with the joy of cooking she was on the business of making shark repellant for the USA OSS
oRmmY TIL when you flipped a cigarette in a pack and called it was called a lucky from WWII, it was smoked last because you were lucky enough to make it through that day.
16Re4 TIL Sigurd the Mighty, the Second Earl of Orkney who reigned between 875–892, was killed by by an infected wound after he strapped the decapitated head of Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed to his horse. The bouncing head and jaw chewed into Sigurd's leg on his victorious ride home from their fight.