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8vv4 TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
9YWZG TIL: The Zimbabwean government complained that Chinese made condoms were too small.
Ojr1 TIL “Porn Judge” is an actual Chinese government job title. Judges such as Wang Dong are paid $32,000 per year to view porn and “have the sacred task of returning the Internet to a clean and safe state”. Most are employed within the police system.
d8GjE TIL: J.R.R Tolkien was rejected for a Nobel Prize, in 1961, on the grounds of his poor storytelling.
Y7apG TIL That in the 1930s Germany developed a 40.6cm naval gun called the "Adolfkanon" or "Adolf Gun". It could fire a 600kg (1300lb) projectile a potential 56km (35mi) at a rate of 2 rounds per minute