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TIL Alaska is larger than all of Scandinavia

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OoYAe TIL Molotov cocktail was coined by the Finns. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov claimed that bombs used on the Finnish was humanitarian aid, so Finns started calling them "Molotov bread baskets". When using incendiaries to counter Soviet tanks, they called them "a drink to go with the food"
DQoXp TIL not all self-representation cases in courts end in failure. In 1981, Edward Lawson won in the Federal Ninth Circuit Court vs. San Diego county over excessive discretion of police requiring to show identification. It was appealed to the Supreme Court. Two years later he won, repealing US Law.
R5MA4 TIL: Bees can turn any worker bee egg into a new queen by feeding it a special diet. If the current queen dies or isn’t doing her job the hive can literally just make a new queen to replace her.
R7MvQ TIL the sky in the famous painting "The Scream" is red probably because of the worldwide effects of Krakatoa's eruption in 1883, which launched particles in the air that changed the sky color for about 5 months
1aO4O TIL; Mike Tyson bribed cops with his crashed Bentley and the cops we're suspended for accepting.