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TIL that 10th century Norwegian Viking ruler King Haakon the Good made the household production of Juleøl (Christmas Beer) a law. Families that did not have beer at their Christmas feast were issued a fine.

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a8eoL TIL that despite being leader of the CDU and serving as the Chancellor of Germany, Ludwig Erhard was never officially a member of the CDU, a fact that was not made public until decades later.
OWKL TIL Hitler made his operatives stage a Poland attack in order to make it look like Poland was attacking Germany, which led to Germany invading Poland.
W751o TIL archaeologists in Mexico discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana.Valeriana was discovered by chance thanks to Lidar, or Light Detection and Ranging, a technology that uses lasers to map and analyze archaeological landscapes.
aDDZ TIL that the NES gun used in duck hunt worked by you pulling the trigger, making the screen flash, surrounding the ducks (targets) in white and the diode in the gun begin reception. The photodiode in the gun detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer that it’s pointed at a target.
lKYV TIL that in the 1950s hundreds of babies were loaned from orphanages to colleges like Cornell so that students could practice on a real newborn.