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TIL that finnish people recieves a top hat and a sword when completing their doctoral degree.

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NX0De TIl about RM Colonel Mark Nicholas Grey who in 1993 helped save thousands of life’s in Croatia by exceeding his authority and opening a spill way gate at Peruća Dam after the Serbs detonated explosives on it. His actions lowered water levels by several meters and the dam did not fail
5YORp TIL of Shizo Kanakuri, a japanese athlete who collapsed during the 1912 olympics marathon. Embarrassed, he went home without notifying race officials. He eventually came back to finish, with a time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds
4xD6 TIL the actors that played Jon Snow and Ygritte fell in love on set and are currently a couple.
8e1wZ TIL Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876 and the 1876 Democratic nominee, was a lifelong bachelor and once disclosed to a friend that he never slept with a woman before
XDDk TIL that Agent Scully on The X-Files is implied on multiple occasions to be immortal