…after being found guilty, Stephen cut off three fingers from the corpse (the three fingers used for blessing).
There was a bear – corporal Wojtek – in Polish military during the second world war. He was good to people but would take part in actions, like carrying ammunition and such. He ‘smoked’ (ate) cigarettes and drank vodka. After the war he was kept in a zoo and his old companions would go into his habitat and wrestle/hug with him. He is an actual idol in Poland.
The Hagia Sophia, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, has some odd scratches inside. For hundreds of years, no one knew what they were, so they left them.
It was eventually discovered that they are Futhark runes. Some Norseman far from home, possibly a member of the Varangian Guard, left a message for us:
Hafdan was here.
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