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TIL the US military allows Norse Heathens to grow beards and the Hammer of Thor symbol is allowed on headstones.

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W7X0X TIL in 1986 the city of Cleveland, OH attempted to break a world record releasing the most helium balloons at one time and ended up killing 2 men.
DQokj TIL that Alaska congressman Mike Gravel spoke only French until the age of seven
vP4Jr TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi
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