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TIL The Vikings put a lot of effort into grooming (especially hair and beards), wore eyeliner, were considered vain, and were absolute hits with the ladies. Their combs and other accessories were sought after because of their quality.

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BrBmK TIL about dry ice on Mars. This is a winter image of dry ice on Mars showing eroded channels filled with frozen carbon dioxide that appear like white ghostly spiders. During the Martian summer the ice will sublimate into the atmosphere, leaving the empty channels behind until Martian winter returns.
rN9r0 TIL about Rogers' Rangers, an independent ranger company attached to the British Army during the Seven Years' War. The Rangers disbanded in 1761 only to be revived as a Loyalist force during the American Revolution, with the US Army Rangers and Queen's York Rangers claiming descent.
9QYQ TIL that during WWII, a German pilot spotted an American pilot’s crippled plane in the sky. Tailing it, he noticed that gunner was dead, crew injured, and they posed no threat. Instead of destroying the plane, he led it to safety. 40 years later, the two pilots reunited.
NDJ1 TIL: President George Washington was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army. He was unsuccessful in obtaining a royal commission but received a decree granting the British militia the same executive powers as commissioned officers. He is the only U.S President to have served the Crown.
gMGYW TIL Oyster mushrooms are carnivorous and feed on roundworms by secreting a toxin that paralizes and dissolves them so they can be digested by the mushroom