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TIL Iceland's armed police force is called the "Viking Squad"

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WZn4 TIL when spelling out the Javanese alphabet it forms a poem, translated: “There (were) two messengers. (They) had animosity (among each other). (They were) equally powerful (in fight). Here are the corpses.”
b1Qp TIL Papa John sold his car 1983 to start up his pizza company. He later located and bought the car back in 2009.
wPE TIL Chef Gordon Ramsey has a homeless drug addicted brother
BrXye TIL In the 17th and 18th centuries, a sin-eater would eat your sins for a tiny fee. For believers, each time the sin-eater did his job, he literally becomes a bit more evil.
oxw8 TIL that cursive handwriting has already been removed from the curricula of 41 states.