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TIL Loki once talked the Gods into making a bad bet with a Giant which would have lost them the sun, the moon, and the goddess Freyja. Ordered to put it right, he took the form of a mare, seduced the Giant’s stallion, sabotaging the bet. Loki later gave birth to a gray foal with eight legs.

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