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TIL France and Brazil had a "war" over lobsters

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4XDyg TIL as early as 839 AD, Swedes & Scandanavians served as mercenaries in the Byzantine army. Swedish men left to enlist in such numbers that a new law "Västgötalagen" was created that said no one could inherit while staying in Greece to stop emigration.
eWEJ TIL Steve Jobs “eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs” at Apple when he became CEO and declined to join Bill Gates’ “Giving Pledge”
9YaLG TIL that Haiti and Liechtenstein showed up at 1936 Berlin Olympics only to discover that they both have the exact same flag
R5l68 TIL that the year 1816 was also known as the ‘Year Without Summer,’ ‘Poverty Year,’ and ‘Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death.’
gMoM4 TIL that sausages are older than the Bible. The oldest works of the Bible were written 3,400 years ago while the first-ever reference to sausages was in the 4,000 year old texts from Mesopotamia.