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TIL: Einar Thambarskelfir was known for his skills as an archer and his weight. His translates to "wobbly belly" or "belly of the bow". He became de facto leader of Norway until he was assassinated by Harald Sigurdsson under the false pretense of a meeting. His wife then raised an army in revenge.

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kJngd TIL Grant Imahara died on July 13, 2020, at the age of 49, after suffering a ruptured, previously undiagnosed, intracranial aneurysm. Imahara began his career at Lucasfilm. Later he worked on Mythbusters and the White Rabbit Project and was a special effects engineer for many Hollywood productions.
0krp TIL during the Holocaust one Jewish woman exposed between 600 and 3000 hiding Jews to the Gestapo to prevent her family from being sent to a concentration camp. Even after the Nazis sent her parents and husband to Auschwitz anyway in 1943, she continued to work for the Gestapo until 1945
4XlYR TIL On June 7th, 1692 the pirate city, Port Royal, in Jamaica was rocked by a massive earthquake that shook the city into the ocean, leaving 2,000 souls burried under sand and brick. Shortly after the quake, a tsunami flooded what was left.
kWZE TIL the deadliest sniper in history was a small farmer from Finland named Simo Häyhä, who got over 500 kills in just over 100 days, used no scope, and survived getting shot in the face with an exploding round.
JBl8 TIL there is a company, named Maximum Performance, that creates fake poop for testing new toilet designs. Pic at the link.