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TIL that despite their presence in pop culture, the Nine Realms of Norse cosmology are never clearly defined or listed in any of the sources of old Norse folklore that survived to the modern day

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E1j07 TIL, during World War II, Soviet physicists Anatoly Alexandrov & Igor Kurchatov created the LPTI system, which helps in demagnetizing ships to protect them from German naval mines. By the end of 1941, the system was successfully used by Soviet Navy in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea naval campaigns.
KOoYQ TIL that disabled employees are often stalked and secretly filmed by their insurance carriers
KrAR TIL Google is offering $20 million to any private team that can land on the moon by New Year’s Eve of 2016
jN8PN TIL The oldest occurrence of the word "fuck" in adjectival form in English comes from the margins of a 1528 manuscript copy of Cicero's De Officiis. A monk had scrawled in the margin notes, "fuckin Abbot".
xVAj7 TIL of the Great Flood of 1862, which created a 300 mile long sea in California's Central Valley