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TIL In November 2024, the german press revealed the existence of Klaasohm festival, held every 5th of December for decades and still going on. This hidden "festival" allow packs of young men to chase women and beat them with cows' horns and is still endorsed by the island authorities.

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rlWe TIL Albert Einstein once took a cab home but forgot his address. He asked the cab driver, who didn’t recognize him, if he knew Einstein’s address. The driver said everyone in Princeton knows that address, to which Einstein replied, “I am Einstein. I forgot my address. Can you take me there?”
X0Dok TIL In 1965, an excavation team discovered the Sword of Goujian in a tomb in Hubei, China. Encased in a nearly air-tight wooden box next to a skeleton. The sword is over 2500 years old but was in perfect condition, test affirmed that the blade could easily cut a stack of twenty pieces of paper.
N7eQ6 TIL there is actually a rhino species still covered in body hair, the Sumatran Rhinoceros which is also the last surviving member of the genus Dicerorhinus
RP58 TIL the voice actresses for the original Powerpuff Girls were never even contacted for voiceacting in the rebooted show, expressing disappointment and describing it as “a stab in the heart”.
OG9o7 TIL that HMS Victory is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission, with with 246 years of service as of 2024. Victory is best known for her role as Horatio, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.