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TIL: Norway news site checks you read story before commenting

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mA7v TIL that for a short period of time, Pepsi had the 6th largest fleet of submarines in the world thanks to a deal they struck to sell their drink in the USSR.
ZvLv TIL Shakespeare’s plays were so popular that pirated copies were made. Reporters would attend a performance and quickly write down the play’s entire text in shorthand as it was spoken. The pirated copies often had errors due to the reporters making mistakes while writing.
Yrm7 TIL the world’s only Cornish Pasty museum is in Mexico
m7VE TIL research indicates that marijuana use may cause complete remission of Crohn’s Disease
OoKbY TIL in spite of rumours of their enemity, Salieri and Mozart composed together a four-minute piece of music, that was considered lost until a copy was found in 2015