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TIL Norwegian soldiers of the Telemark Battalion fighting in Afghanistan sometimes cried ‘To Valhalla, Oorah!’

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Z8Woo TIL the Dept. of Education has their own SWAT team. In 2011 they suspected a woman of a white collar crime so they raided her house at dawn. Except it wasn’t her home anymore so they held her ex husband and his 3 children.
xVbrk TIL that in 1935 the US Government planted 220 million trees in 7 years to combat Dust storms. It was a huge success and if it was repeated today it would help in the fight against the climate crisis immensly.
E1GG7 TIL that a potential complication during vaginal delivery is a "Uterine Inversion". In order to treat said inversion, the attending Doctor quite literally fists the female; he/she grabs the uterus through the vagina, and manually pushes it back into place. The alternative is massive hemorrhage.
MDkV TIL that any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the empire state building!
vlw7 TIL The reason Popeye eats spinach is because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg of iron per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip