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TIL Iceland has never won a Winter Olympic medal

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awREb TIL after Universidad del Mar was closed by Chilean government due to major financial irregularities, artist Papas Fritas managed to enter its vault and burn tuition contracts amounting to $500 million, making difficult to prove students owed the university this money
oRPV8 TIL that in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium balloons to a lawn chair and flew to 16,000 feet, only intending to fly 10 meters. He landed safely on a power line that broke, causing a 20-minute electricity blackout, and was arrested by the FAA for violating airspace.
neZdW [TIL] About the Melanasians. A group of people with African descent who have naturally blonde hair.
OGxdg TIL There were nazi prisoner camps in rural Virginia towards the end of WW2. They were there to, among other things, to pick apples while American Servicemen were fighting in Europe.
woMLo TIL about Ukyo Katayama, a Japanese former F1 driver. In 1994, he had been diagnosed with cancer in his back, but kept it a secret from his team, not wanting anyone's sympathy to make excuses for him. He raced for 4 years with the tumor and announced his illness only after he retired from F1