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TIL Finland trains elite soldiers in Lapland in preparation for a future war with neighbouring Russia. The two countries share an 833 mile border and were in conflict during WWII.

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oyLR TIL: There is an intact cask of plutonium dioxide on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean because Apollo 13 failed to land on the moon
Ood57 TIL that Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburg, a relative of the slaughtered Romanov family, gave a blood sample to help genetically ID their remains when they were discovered and exhumed.
v1Gar TIL Nigerian scammers sold a fake airport for $242 million dollars.
9Epr TIL multiple people have died of heart attacks while eating at The Heart-Attack Grill in Vegas. Once, the owner brought the cremated remains of a customer who died of a heart-attack while in his restaurant to a TV interview.
woyaE TIL that the first American Recreational Vehicle (RV) Club was founded in 1919 and known as The Tin Can Tourists.