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TIL Valhalla is just one of the halls that dead Viking warriors go after death, Half of the fallen chosen by Odin for Valhalla and the other half chosen by Freyja for Folkvangr

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69MxX TIL after his journey from Japan in 1614, English sailor John Saris returned home with 'Japanese erotic art'. The incident ended his career as a merchant.
9YbMp TIL that in 1938, a physicist proposed an exact number for the total number of protons in the observable universe.
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