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TIL: Prisoners in Sweden live better than the low income American

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awVb9 TIL: The Russian Army finally switched to socks (from footwraps) in 2013.
6Ly8 TIL that the founder of the modern frozen food industry, Clarence Birdseye, was inspired when ice fishing in Labrador, Canada, in -40°C weather. He discovered that the fish he caught froze almost instantly and tasted fresh afterwards unlike the slowly frozen seafood sold in New York.
16vdV Today I learned about Jean-Marie Loret, the alleged illegitimate son of Adolf Hilter.
99vr TIL the word “whiskey” comes from a Gaelic phrase meaning “water of life”
P1xmO TIL Gibraltar was awarded city status in 1842 but it was officially recognised only in 2022 after it was discovered by researchers in the National Archives