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TIL: Woden was an Anglo-Saxon god from which our day of the week Wednesday is named after. Woden had a career in curing horses and carrying off the dead, and Wednesday is his day (Woden’s day). Various spellings—wodnesdaeg, Weodnesdei, Wenysday, wonysday, Weddinsday have been used

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