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TIL that the Vikings were considered neat-freaks who seduced good Anglo-Saxon women by barbaric unfair practices like bathing once a week and combing their hair every day.

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p8WMG TIL Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was brought down because he created forged documents using a Microsoft font which didn’t exist when they were supposed to have been written.
Zpaja TIL the Pentagon launched up to 25 unmanned, high-altitude, solar-powered, mass surveillance balloons over the US in 2019
4l06 TIL that Ernest Hemingway once fired a sub-machine gun at sharks that attacked a tuna he was trying to land; the blood from the bullets caused the sharks to attack even harder
e00bL TIL 61% of US soldiers killed in the Vietnam war were less than 20 years old. The average age of deaths being 23 years old.
45Zb TIL that GiveDirectly, a non-profit that gives money to poor people, has been evaluated to be one of the most effective means of charity.