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

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xoO5 TIL that the first Allied shots of both world wars were fired from the same gun
x9Gg TIL: Liberia was a founding member of the UN and a successful African nation…until 1980 when a USA-backed coup assassinated the President, and executed the entire government. Liberia collapsed into a civil war and never recovered.
kyD4 TIL It would take a person 59 days straight to count to one million. A man named Jeremy Harper counted to up to it for charity in 2007. He counted for 16 hours a day and raised $10,000 (one penny per number).
Lk0E0 TIL In 1926 Poland sent the United States a birthday card. With 5 million signatures.
OQn4 TIL that a year before his death, Karl Marx no longer associated himself with the current state of communism and declared that “I myself am not a Marxist”.