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TIL that ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, an attempt to selectively “breed” more children with “racially desirable” traits.

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8alnG TIL that in 1981 Ken Rex McElroy was murdered in broad daylight with 40 witnessess yet the murder was never solved
xVwa5 TIL that since 2012, 6 people have choked to death during competitive eating contests.
wNoP TIL of Harald Hadrada, a Viking who fled from his native Norway to Russia, then went on to become an elite guardsman in Eastern Roman Empire and fought in Iraq. He then went back to Russia to marry a princess, and arrived back in Norway as a king, and finally invaded England with his army.
WkYmA TIL The Allman Brothers Band funded Jimmy Carter $800,000 to his nearly broke presidential campaign, without the donations he likely would not have won.
Vw4D TIL there was a town that was underwater for 25 years and resurfaced in 2009