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TIL the word āss in Old Norse means god.

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KO664 TIL: Vince Li, the man who beheaded and cannibalized a passenger on a Greyhound bus, was released and is not considered a significant safety threat
kJAM1 TIL the Soccer Ashes Tournament. It was played between Australia and New Zealand every year from the 1920s until the trophy for it was lost in the 1950s. It was found again this year in a former Australian soccer star's garage so they restarted the tournament this year.
0dV1 TIL that the thermonuclear stage of an 3.8 megaton hydrogen bomb is buried approximately 180 feet under a field in Faro, NC. It fell from a crashing B52 in 1961. The bomb impacted the ground at nearly mach 1. Being so massive, it drove itself nearly 200 feet down and recovery was deemed impossible.
1awwP TIL that a pilot was sucked out of the cockpit of a passenger jet. A crew member held on to his body until landing, at which point they discovered he had survived.
A4Ld TIL That Crocodiles and Alligators are more closely related to birds than they are other species of reptiles