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TIL of “The Three Boys”,who explored a small cave in Sweden using matches and planks every Sunday. After regularly exploring for two years, In 1948, a stone fell and opened a passage into a much larger cave system, the first hall after the passage was named “The Mountain King’s Hall”.

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KYwnE TIL of the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Anglo-Saxons caught a Viking Raider force before the Vikings could get back to their boats and annihilated them.
LQOWv TIL, when Wilt Chamberlain shot his 100-point game, he did so shooting his free throws underhand (e.g. "granny style"). He later switched back to overhand, even though it made his percentage go way down, just so he wouldn't look silly.
4kXM5 TIL National Lampoon released a full length parody of Frank Herbert’s Dune - called Doon, the dessert planet. Giant pretzels replaced sand worms and the most valuable substance was beer, not spice
d8p4B TIL Burger King Japan collaborated with Microsoft to release the Windows 7 Whopper in 2009. It has 7 beef patties and costs 777¥ to the first 30 customers each day.
VMnD0 TIL Mark Spitz, a 9 time Olympic Champion jokingly told the Russian swim team coach in 1972 that his moustach increased his speed in the water, deflecting water away from his mouth. The next year, every Russian swimmer was sporting one.