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TIL: The Finnish Stopped Soviet Mines from Exploding by playing a Single Polka Song on Repeat

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y0Wa TIL Norway knighted a penguin in 2008. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard, and his full name is Sir Nils Olav II
699JJ TIL that Rockwell (the original singer of "Somebody's Watching Me") and Redfoo (one half of LMFAO) are siblings.
QJgMM TIL F-117 Nighthawks are stored in Type 1000 storage which requires them to be flown every 4 years and maintained until recalled for active service again.
XKrr TIL that Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” almost wasn’t published by the Royal Society of London because they had spent their whole budget on a book about fish, called “The History of Fishes”. The cost was instead covered by astronomer Edmund Halley
6dXX TIL on this day, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government. President John Adams later signed it into law.