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TIL that Viking helmets didn’t actually have horns.

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0Gpp TIL that there are women who are prepared to pay to have their breasts slapped to make said breasts appear fuller and firmer.
jnWp TIL that Russia has secret cities; you can only gain access through security checkpoints, and they only show up on classified maps. Foreigners are strictly forbidden.
16J4d TIL in 1839, Charles Goodyear accidentally invented Vulcanization when he dropped some rubber in a flying pan
oR17A TIL When Prince changed his name to a symbol, Warner Bros sent out floppy disks to major news outlets containing the digital rendition
WjQX TIL when the space station Skylab fell to Earth in 1979, it landed in Esperance, Western Australia. The Shire of Esperance fined NASA $400 for littering, which went unpaid for 30 years until a radio host raised the money and paid it on behalf of NASA.