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TIL that Techno Viking sued, censored and bankrupted the producer of the original video that started the meme.

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vP6Zx TIL that People in Vanuatu use certain plants, called "calendar plants," to indicate changes in the seasons and cues for certain activities such as farming, fishing, and hunting. For example, when Melanthera biflora flowers, local people know that sea turtles are very fat and ready to be hunted.
8llV TIL that Lord Voldemort Was a Character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
nWXE7 TIL Avicii didn't sing "Wake Me Up", Aloe Blacc is the actual singer
xVYWk TIL that Nördlingen was build on top of a 15 million year's old meteorite crater. Stone buildings in the town contain millions of tiny diamonds, all less than 0.2 millimetres across.
OoL5X TIL the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan is the most-nuked location on earth, with 456 nuclear explosions recorded between 1949 and 1989.