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TIL the KGB spy assigned to George Orwell would later lose his faith in Communism, after reading Orwell’s books

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XEWGP TIL that in Norse mythology, Loki got fucked by a horse and became pregnant, he would then later give birth to the eight legged horse Sleipner which would become Odin's horse
Y7vaA TIL that the Spanish governor in Portugal was thrown out of a window, thus ending Spanish rule in Portugal in 1640.
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