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TIL: The last Sauna contest between Finland and Russia left one man dead, and the other in the Hospital for severe burns

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4Xpkb TIL that a British bomb detection dog named Theo died from stress a few hours after seeing his handler get shot. The pair had set a record for bomb detection, and the dog was posthumously awarded an honour equivalent to the Victoria Cross.
a8WwM TIL that in the original Polynesian myth, Māui dies after transforming into a worm and entering the vagina of the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō, who crushes him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina.
ney1o TIL the horse that portrays Roach in The Witcher is male, whereas Roach is a female, so they use CG to cover/remove the horse’s genitals.
yDaJ TIL that according to the unpublished notes written by J.R.R Tolkien regarding ‘The Silmarillion’, 'Melkor’ (a Dark lord that preceded Sauron) was prophesised to return and wage an apocalyptic war, presumably thousands of years after the war of the ring.