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TIL Hafthór Björnsson (“The Mountain” from Game of Thrones) broke a 1,000-year-old record by carrying a 30-foot, 1,433-pound log for five steps

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kJxd1 TIL: UK Police vehicles are exempt from requiring insurance under Section 144(2)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
dDmpE TIL Hugh Hefner paid $75000 for the burial spot next to Marilyn Monroe stating "Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up
epD5 Today I learned that many of the men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.
epVlJ TIL that the origins of the white wedding dress can be traced back to Queen Victoria’s marriage to her first cousin, Prince Albert, in 1840. They were married for 21 years until his death on December 14, 1861.
neyQY TIL: That during World War II, Winnepeg staged a Nazi takeover of the city to promote the sale of warbonds that they called "If Day."