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TIL, we kiss under mistletoe to honour Balder, the Norse god, and brother of Thor.

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oBaPE TIL Australia’s most successful athlete is David Foster. He has held the World Woodchopping Championship title for 21 consecutive years and won over 1000 titles.
wLRG8 TIL of the Spoiler Paradox, a psychological phenomenon where being informed of how a story ends before experiencing it seems to increase the enjoyment of the story, rather than decrease it.
mxMYy TIL Isaac Asimov wrote a book named The Sensuous Dirty Old Man and was known as "the man with a hundred hands", in reference to his constant groping and molestation of women.
J11y4 TIL The Outback Way is a 2,700 km "shortcut" directly through the Australian Outback. Without it, the trip from Winton to Laverton would be over 4,000 kms.
loK1a TIL serial killer Edmund Kemper was so friendly with his local police that they initially thought his phone call confessing to killing his mother was a weird prank. They also didn't know he'd killed his own grandparents in his teens because that record was expunged.