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TIL that over 1000 year ago a mysterious Viking smith was able to forge swords of modern quality steel. They were far better than anything else in the world for over a millenium, including katanas. Only 44 examples were ever found. They are called +ULFBERT+H

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lZdN TIL the inverted cross only became associated with Satan in the 19th Century when a French cult leader was accused of holding erotic Black Masses. He believed the inverted crucifix symbolised the ‘Reign of Love’ as opposed to the 'Reign of Suffering’ of the traditional cross
v1enr TIL that multiple Star Wars lead actors have struggled with a habit of making their own sound effects for fight scenes - to the point where multiple takes needed to be re-shot because you could see the actors making lightsaber noises.
vLAD TIL That Carrie Fisher admitted that she found it difficult to act across from Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin) in Star Wars because Cushing was so nice and polite to her on set between takes that it was hard to show disdain towards him.
KYwMw TIL of James Riley. On Aug 19, 1871, Riley was involved in a shootout in Newton, KS. When the fight ended, Riley had shot 6 people, 2 mortally, and walked away never to be seen again.
1adpX TIL Physicist Brian Schmidt made a bet with his colleague Sean Carroll, betting that we wouldn’t know the value of the cosmological density parameter within 20 years. Brian lost the bet by figuring it out himself, which earned him a Nobel prize.