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TIL that the Bluetooth logo is a combination of two Viking-Era Younger Futhark runes that are analogous to the Latin letters “H” and “B”, initials of King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson who united Norway and Denmark in 958 CE, and whose moniker is believed to come from the color of his dead tooth.

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