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TIL that Native Americans successfully fought off a Viking raiding party of 50 warriors after they landed in New Foundland, 985 AD

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PY9aO TIL at the end of the 17th century in an attempt to modernize society, Russian Emperor Peter the Great taxed any men who didn't shave their beard. Those that paid the tax carried around a copper or bronze token as proof they had paid.
M44V TIL the Indian government has issued cattle ID cards of cows in West Bengal to stop smuggling of cows to Bangladesh. Each cattle ID card has the picture of the animal & the owner with information such as its color,height,sex and length of horns and details-like “one horn missing” or “half tail lost”
vP0l8 TIL that after Superman’s much-publicized 1992 “death”, he returned in 1993’s “Reign of the Supermen” sporting a mullet. The cancelled film Superman Lives would have also featured a mullet-wearing Superman.
LQ0dd TIL There is no significant evidence to support drinking 8 glasses of water a day
kJ6Nm TIL that the Catholic church’s 1587 ruling that establishes the principle that impotents and eunuchs can’t marry is titled ‘Cum frequenter’