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TIL Military Buried In Arlington National Cemetery Who Are Norse Pagan Can Now Have Thor’s Hammer On Their Tombstone.

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6EJZm TIL about the YONSHAKUDAMA, the world’s largest firework weighing in at 420 KG. It is fired every year in Japan.
eYYL TIL humans can enter sleep cycles of 24-48 hours in the absence of sunlight
OoYAg TIL Stalin saved the Chinese written script by talking Mao out of completely replacing it with full scale romanization
VajQ TIL the productivity of the team behind Powerpuff girls dropped significantly due to the release of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The few who didn’t play the game felt left out and annyoed as the rest wouldn’t stop talking about it.
JYAx1 TIL that Andrei Chikatilo, who violently murdered 52 people in the Soviet Union from 1978-90, was initially cleared as a suspect in 1984 because his blood type was A while the semen found at the crime scenes was AB. His second arrest revealed his blood and semen belonged to different blood groups.