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TIL The gavel used by the UN President is called "Thor's gavel" as it was gifted to the UN by Iceland's first permanent UN representative Thor Thors

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Ypr5A TIL that Twenty or more US Airmen were in Hiroshima as POWs when the Atom Bomb fell. SSG Ralph J. Neal and another Airman, Norman Brissette, survived the initial blast by jumping into a cesspool, only to die thirteen days later from radiation poisoning.
EgyjV TIL: Vikings were extremely well kept for their time. So much so that an English cleric claim that they bathe regularly, comb their hair, and change clothes frequently to seduce highborn English women to their heathen ways. Numerous bone combs, tweezers, and earspoons have been found.
PXRG TIL Suge Knight threatened to throw Vanilla Ice off a balcony if he didn’t sign him the rights to ‘Ice Ice Baby’. Suge used the money to fund Death Row Records
gyV7 TIL: “Kenjataimu” is the Japanese word for the post-orgasm period in which he can think clearly because his mind is free of sexual desire.
5Zp TIL that the largest international sperm bank turns down red haired donors.