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TIL The entire Norwegian police force only fired 3 shots during 2014.

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1aDGd TIL that Norway either has or is planning to merge it's two northern counties, Troms and Finnmark, into a new county, Troms og Finnmark
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a8vRN TIL about the Ham Sandwich Theorem, a mathematical theory stating every possible combination of any number of sandwich ingredients in any dimensional space can be cut in equal halves with one slice, regardless of each ingredient's location.
9XvM TIL Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra couldn’t stand each other. On the set of Guys and Dolls, Sinatra referred to Brando as “Mumbles,” so in a scene where Sinatra had to eat cheesecake Brando kept deliberately screwing up his lines so Sinatra had to keep eating more and more cheesecake in retakes.
X0k7P TIL Disney's "Corey in the House" has a Nintendo DS game and it has one of the highest rated user scores on the Metacritic. "Rarely does a work so groundbreaking and epic in scale exhibit such a visceral, searing arc of human pathos"