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TIL: Ragnarok, the Norse end of the world, is happening in a week (Feb. 22nd)

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XEv86 TIL that actress Kaley Cuoco's father-in-law is founder and Chairman of Intuit, maker of TurboTax & QuickBooks
Vjek TIL that Al Queda’s strategy specifically involved using terrorism to provoke the West into long wars in numerous places that would lead to its financial collapse.
rOn4 TIL The man who wrote what is considered the first significant self help book in 1859, Samuel Smiles, is the great-great-grandfather of Bear Grylls.
dkQ TIL Jimi Hendrix was kicked out of the 101st Airborne for, among other things, “masturbating in platoon area while supposed to be on detail [sic]”
691m8 TIL that hand and arm transplants are a thing in lieu of prosthetics