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TIL The Minnesota Vikings are the only NFL team to have an actual human as their mascot. His name is Ragnar

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b9Pb7 TIL: The word "Antifragile"—it describes systems that increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures; fundamentally different from resiliency (recovering from failure) and robustness (resisting failure).
negnY TIL about the Christmas Truce, an unofficial cease-fire that happened on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day during WW1 in 1914. Both sides stopped fighting and held celebrations, even giving gifts to each other.
oZyr TIL: Empedocles, 5th century Greek philosopher most known for the development of the idea of the Four Elements, also concluded that matter could neither be created nor destroyed, and developed a theory of evolution concluding that form followed function and that the most fit survived.