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X0RYE TIL that the 2014 video game Assassin’s Creed Unity features a highly detailed recreation of Notre Dame Cathedral created using years of research and historical references.
J1AnQ TIL: Black people with blond hair occur naturally in the islands Melanesia
nKnr TIL Valhalla is just one of the halls that dead Viking warriors go after death, Half of the fallen chosen by Odin for Valhalla and the other half chosen by Freyja for Folkvangr
JYBvB TIL that the Indian Government refused to pass on meteorological information about a cyclone to their rival, Pakistan. The cyclone went on to kill over half a million people in East Pakistan (Today Bangladesh).
vLr7 TIL the dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor.