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TIL that the cheese slicer (Ostehøvel) was invented by Thor Bjørklund (Nor). The legend has it that, frustrated at the un-even cheese slices he cut with a knife, he wanted to improve the cheese world. He realized that a carpenter’s plane could do the job and the cheese slicer was born.


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