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TIL that in 1997 the largest known viking ship 'Roskilde 6' was discovered buried beneath the Roskilde Viking museum during the construction of an extension.

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VBR0Z TIL: after rejecting a scholarship offer to Harvard at age 16 in 1931, Orson Welles travelled to Europe. While in Dublin, he walked into a theatre and claimed he was a broadway star. The manager, impressed by his audition and brashness, gave him work, and that same year, Welles made his stage debut.
ANNJn TIL of a fossil known as “Fighting Dinosaurs”. Preserved remains of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor trapped in combat.
ADL14 TIL that the two most distinctive features of the 'Death Star' in Star Wars—its crater-shaped 'superlaser' and the 'trench' around its circumference—were actually the combined features of two of Saturn's moons, Iapetus and Mimas.
wlYE TIL in the 1960s the FDA mysteriously banned the use of the miracle berry, a fruit which makes sour foods taste sweet and was being developed as a safe alternative to sugar.
4g4X TIL that Milk allergy is quite different from Lactose intolerance and can be problematic for young children due to ignorance of the differences