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TIL that we have been shaking hands since at least 900 BCE.

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oRw1A TIL the performer at the Paris Olympics faced harsh online criticism for his "blue scrotum" act.He explained that he wrote a song called "Nude" and said that the first Olympic athletes in Greece were depicted naked, highlighting the origins of the Games.
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QNGLp TIL that in an unrivaled capacity to taunt the enemy US Army General Matthew Ridgway would stand in the middle of a road under heavy artillery fire and urinate to demonstrate his contempt for German accuracy. Aides and fellow generals repeatedly begged him to abandon this bravado. He ignored them.
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