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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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e0G9k TIL about Appalachiosaurus, the Alabama cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, named in 2005 by Thomas Carr, Thomas Williamson, and David Schwimmer.
NXPJP TIL German pianos have an H key
d8jeK TIL Barbed wire fences were used for telegraph transmission in rural areas.
jNdWj TIL a blue whale's heart can weigh in excess of 1,300 lbs and be the size of a small car. Their hearts beat at a rate of 8–10 beats per minute and can be heard from over 2 miles away.
Brg8W TIL that Byzantium not only developed sophisticated systems for taxation, justice, administration, and military deployment, but is also rarely credited with refuting Aristotle’s theory of falling bodies, one thousand years before Galileo.