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TIL Norway can live off investments from its oilfund for “decades, centuries, possibly forever”

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a8n6N TIL English football (soccer) team Derby County's stadium from 1889 to 2003 was called the "Baseball Ground". It was originally built for baseball, which had a brief vogue in England in the 1890s, but the last baseball game played there was in 1898.
vLr7 TIL the dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor.
oBeNA TIL world’s tallest man (7-foot-9) saved two dolphins by pulling plastic material out of their stomachs with his long arms.
9wxVQ TiL the only living survivors of the sinking of the Tirpitz are trees - and they'll happily tell you what they saw.
xVn45 TIL that the term 'robber baron', applied to certain ruthless wealthy American businessmen of late 19th century, is derived from the German term 'Raubritter' which referred to the medieval German knights who charged illegal tolls on the roads crossing their lands.