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TIL Edvard Grieg’s “Morning Mood” wasn’t written to paint a Norwegian sunrise. The music actually accompanies a scene in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt where Peer wakes up stranded in the Moroccan desert (surrounded by acacias and palm trees) — not a Scandinavian fjord.

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ORBL TIL the Black Death arrived in Norway on a ghost ship that just so happened become beached near a major port. Even tho all the crew had died the surviving rats and flees managed to spread the disease throughout the country and later to Sweeden and Russia.
ADeao Til that military working dogs used by the US in Vietnam were either left behind or euthanized, mostly the latter.
m1Z6M TIL 91% of all the dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench occurred in the past 4 years. Before that, the only visitors were the original explorers in 1960, and James Cameron in 2012.
4XQ6R TIL of Richard Russell, an airport ground service worker who stole a 76-seat passenger plane and flew for an hour doing barrel rolls before committing suicide by crash landing, all while talking to ATC
Y4Ox TIL that Elephants are excellent swimmers. They swim submerged underwater using their trunks as snorkels. African Elephants have been recorded swimming 48km .They can swim 6 hours nonstop then rest without sinking.