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TIL that Irish bagpipes are a thing and are distinctly different to Scottish bagpipes (Happy St. Patrick's Day!)

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X0OQ6 TIL that in Nazi-occupied Scandinavia, maternity centers were established to harvest Nordic “Aryan” traits and then send babies southward into Germany to “correct” the German population’s genes
8amoa TIL it would be possible to restore the atmosphere of Mars by placing a giant magnet between the Sun and Mars
M7Kyb TIL that there is a traditional inuit food called Kiviak which is made by fermenting seabird inside a seal's skin
4X75X TIL In New Mexico, at a quarter-mile section of Route 66, the rumble strips have been engineered to sound like the song “America the Beautiful” if you drive exactly at 45 mph over them
NnVN TIL that the man who wrote “The Internet is for Porn” also wrote “Let it Go.”