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TIL Norwegians pay half tax in November, so everyone has more money for Christmas.

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ADAno TIL of Walt Whitman's friend, Silas Soule. At 17, he was escorting slaves on the Underground Railroad. By 22, he'd staged two prison heists & become a blacksmith. At 26, he defied orders to participate in a massacre of Native Americans, testified against its architect, and was murdered for it.
omZr TIL In 1730 as a pirate named Olivier Levasseur was about to be hanged he threw a coded message into the crowd whilst shouting “Find my treasure, ye who may understand it!” Some of the treasure still hasn’t been found.
VMnlZ TIL that Götz von Berlichingen, a warrior poet, lost his right arm by cannon fire in 1504. He had a mechanical arm invented so that he could still hold a sword and fought in numerous battles, led rebel armies, was attributed with coining the phrase "he can kiss my ass" and died at 82 of old age.
16Ayd Today I learned that Physarum Polycephalum, also known as slime mold or the blob. Can move without legs, has no eyes or mouth, but can still detect and digest any food it comes across.
Y7MEx TIL a handful of Crips got their asses handed to them by Army Rangers in a shootout in WA in 1989