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TIL that when Oslo arranged the Olympic Games in 1952, a root beer company had already bought the rights to use the olympic rings on their product to make it seem more like a sports drink, so that the Norwegian Olympic Comittee to had to buy the rights back in order to actually arrange the games.

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OogE1 TIL Norwegian guards working at Nazi prison camps in northern Norway were so brutal that it shocked the German SS soldiers supervising them. The German officers were so unnerved that they removed these guards from active service and others were jailed.
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6rEW TIL that a French judge banned 2 parents from naming their daughter “Nutella” as the name may lead to teasing and disparaging thoughts.