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TIL I learned a Minnesotan high school guidance counselor once built a replica viking ship that sailed from Lake Superior all the way to Norway.

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GY7mE TIL of Cannibal Island - a small island in Siberia where the Soviet Union forcibly deported 6,000 citizens. They were abandoned with few supplies and only flour for food. Disease and cannibalism quickly ran rampant and after 13 weeks, 2/3 of the original deportees were dead.
RAZ7 TIL that you aren’t allowed to spin your players in Foosball.
5E4D TIL that 140 years after an ancient stolen ring was found on a rural farm, a tablet was found at another site (“Among those who bear the name of Senicianus to none grant health until he bring back the ring to the temple of Nodens”). One of the scholars who translated it: Oxford prof. J R R Tolkien
VMEXD TIL that the 1983 'Inspector Gadget' TV series is the first animated television series to be presented in stereo sound.
QPpE TIL there were once $100,000 notes in circulation that are still considered legal tender today