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Today I learned there’s a Norse god of skiing! ⛷️ 😳

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69dMW TIL the famous Austrian athlete Felix Baumgartner set three world records, jumping with a parachute from a height of 38 km 710 m and developing a speed of 1173 km/h
BoVD TIL during the WW1 Germans protested against the use of shotguns in trenches by the americans arguing Hague Convention forbid to employ arms that cause unnecessary suffering.
E1gJP TIL A French WW1 air force squadron composed of American volunteer pilots, named the Lafayette Escadrille, had two lion cubs as their mascots named ‘Whiskey’ and ‘Soda’
4X8pN TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.