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TIL: In Norse mythology, Loki once lost an eating competition to a man named Logi

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wovAY TIL in 1900, Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi simultaneously declared war against Russia, the USA, the UK, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, and the Netherlands, after they showed support for the Guangxu Emperor, whom she had usurped and put under house arrest. She lost.
9Yak7 TIL in 1987, production on the film Apt Pupil began with 17-year-old Rick Schroder cast as the lead. After ten weeks of filming, production suffered from lack of funds and was put on hold. A year later, Schroder had aged too much for the film to work and 40 minutes of usable footage was abandoned.
GArE4 TIL Greece and Albania are still technically at war since WW2, as the state of war declared in 1940 has never been legaly resolved and is still a matter of dispute
4XZ1R TIL that by 1983, the “Quartz Crisis” had decimated the Swiss watchmaking economy, which had 1,600 watchmakers in 1970 and eventually fell to 600.
8yda TIL of Robert Smalls; an escaped slave who captured and sailed a Confederate ship to the Union with 8 enslaved families, including his. He was awarded today’s equivalent of $34,000 for commandeering the ship, won a seat in the House of Representatives, and purchased his former slavemaster’s house.