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TIL about Bård "Faust" Eithun, drummer for the black metal band Emperor who served 9 years in prison for murder for luring a gay man into the woods and stabbing him 37 times. Faust went on to win a Norwegian Grammy in 2022.

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Yp0Zx TIL that the past tense for the English word ‘dare’ is 'durst’
4NWw TIL J.R.R. Tolkien and Hitler fought against one another during one of the biggest battles in the First World War, the Battle of Somme.
BgWJL TIL about Len Koenecke, a Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder who died in 1935 from a blow to the head when he tried to seize control of an airplane
P1pkw TIL twins can have different dads by the occurrence called heteropaternal superfecundation
d8AME TIL the Dalai Lama is almost a vegetarian. He alternates. While he advocates vegetarianism, if he is in the company of meat-eaters, he is happy to eat meat. The White House once offered him a vegetarian menu and he declined.