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TIL when you are in Sweden you have the year-round right to walk, cycle, ride, ski and camp on any land, with few exceptions, due to The Right of Public Access, or ‘Allemansrätt’.

eLr5 TIL wild salmon flesh is red because of pigments in the krill they eat. It is the same pigment that turns lobsters and flamingos red/pink. If this is not supplemented in farmed salmon, their flesh will be the normal grey of other fish. This is why farmed salmon says, “color added”.
4XZPR TIL an average silver back can deadlift 1800 lb and their grip can crush a crocodile's skull | They are 4 to 9 times stronger than an average human male.
W7bB9 TIL that the first reference to Santa’s sleigh being pulled by a reindeer appeared in 1821 in a poem called “Old Santeclaus with Much Delight.” “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” published two years later, said he had eight reindeer named Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder, and Blixem.
epkVD TIL The world's biggest kitchen is often considered to be the kitchen at the Sri Sai Sansthan Prasadalaya in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India which uses state of the art technology to prepare free meals for over 40,000 people on a typical day and sometimes more than 70,000 for special festivals.
88n8 TIL after Trent Reznor found out his CD was $30 in Australia, he said “Steal it. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing. Because one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they’re ripping people off and that’s not right.”