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TIL: People in Iceland genuinely believe in elves. They live in the forests and they have an elf church.

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4kBRa TIL about the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military transport ship which was sunk in 1945 by a Soviet submarine while evacuating civilians and military. 9,400 people died, making it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history
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