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TIL Norway had a Legal purge after WW2 against anyone deemed to have collaborated with the Germans during the war

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5YdR TIL that there is a conspiracy theory that the Titanic never sunk. Instead, it was her sister ship, the Olympic, and it was an insurance scam.
lbv7 TIL Japaneses invented a machine that un-censor japanese pornography.
VB5pQ TIL Robert Englund, best known for playing Freddy Kruger, auditioned for the role of Han Solo, and after being turned down, recommend Mark Hamill to play Luke.
dOrj TIL that the acoustic era (1877 to 1925) gave rise to the expression “put a sock in it”, which commemorates the common practice of placing a sock in the horn of the phonograph to muffle the sound for quieter listening.
RYZ9 TIL the phrase ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ originated from the tendency of dead animals to be washed away following periods of heavy rain in the filthy streets of 17th century England.