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TIL that, according to Norse mythology, dwarves were dark elves

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Mg08 TIL every fig has a dead wasp in it.
a4RM TIL in 1995, when looking through the manuscripts of Carl Koller at the Library of Congress, a German historian found a small envelope of cocaine with the note: “Remainder of the first dose with which I made my initial cocaine experiment in 1884”
LkVYV TIL that Pete Best released an album titled Best of the Beatles which contained no Beatles songs. The Beatles tried suing him, but lost because he was Pete Best, of the Beatles.
9wKoB TIL that Yuma High School’s mascot is the Criminal because the first school building was the old Yuma Territorial Prison.
kOXAm TIL Korea was a unified country under the Choson dynasty from 1392 until 1910. In Chinese, the two Koreas are given distinct country names, with Chaoxian for the North, Hanguo for the South