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TIL that the most verbose of all the Varangian stones - the Turinge Runestone in Sweden - is devoted to a Viking chief in service of Kiev King Yaroslav the Wise in the beginning of the XI century

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b9kNa TIL that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall.
pYdAO TIL of Anton-Babinski syndrome, a form of blindness from damage to the brain—cortical blindness, where the patient firmly denies their loss of vision, as the disconnection between speech and visual pathways causes them to lose the concept of sight, filling in gaps with hallucinations—confabulations.
VMGEp TIL of Six Californias, a proposed initiative in 2016 to split California into six separate states: Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California, and South California. The initiative failed to meet the required signatures to make the ballot.
XmrD TIL Prince Eric from “The Little Mermaid” is the only Disney prince who does not sing in his film.
E0yp TIL George Carlin hosted the very first episode of Saturday Night Live.