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TIL during the Viking age many Scandanavians wore mini Thor hammers around their necks

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Y7YJx TIL about William C. Rogers III, the captain of USS Vincennes. Under his command, the US navy warship shot down Iran Air Flight 655 that is carrying 290 occupants. All onboard including 66 children perished. Later on Rogers was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service.
awKx0 TIL every stegosaurus toy is probably female
VMgx8 TIL that In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
wLEpY TIL President William McKinley wore a red carnation in his lapel at all times as a good luck charm. During a public meeting in his second term, he took out the flower from his lapel and gave it to a 12-year-old girl. Minutes later, he was shot. He died a week later.
0wKe1 TIL that David Bowie's performance of Heroes at Berlin in 1987 is considered by some as one of the major incidents that eventually lead to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.