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TIL When the Vikings made it to Constantinople during the 9th century AD, some of them carved their names in runic inscriptions inside Hagia Sophia - still visible to this day.

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PYPXg TIL that during a prisoner revolt at Auschwitz in 1944, an SS guard was burned alive by prisoners in a crematorium oven
aGl0 TIL that due to differences between speed of sound and speed of radio signals you can hear the Big Ben chime faster on a FM radio rather than standing in front of it in real life.
EVb0 TIL that medieval English longbows could fire an arrow more than 300 yards and required so much strength that the skeletons of medieval archers can by identified by their enlarged left arms.
4m16 TIL Cisco owns the iOS trademark and licenses it to Apple
OoDa4 TIL In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it, as part of a protest against it. This is due to independent filmmakers needing to pay £1,000 per submission in order to be certified. The film received a U.