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Odd Starheim

• ...that Norwegian SOE agent Odd Starheim (pictured) was killed in 1943 when the coastal steamer he and his team had seized off the coast of occupied Norway was sunk by German bombers?
• ...that the 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly was later confirmed to be a failed launch of a Bulava missile from a Russian submarine?
• ...that Tord Asle Gjerdalen twice rejected offers for a spot on the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team, due to time-consuming medicine studies?

Source

1. Wikipedia:Recent additions 252, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions 251, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions 251, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.