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TIL that there is plans of an international sporting event akin to the Olympics where participants will be allowed and encouraged to use performance enhancing drugs.

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5gJp TIL that the Bald Eagle was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in 2007. It is now under the “Least Concern” category of endangerment.
yVkxX TIL of a Brazilian football referee that stabbed a player to death, which resulted in the crowd storming the pitch, stoning him to death, beheading him, and quartering him before finally sticking his head on a stake on the pitch in 2013.
NY8J TIL that gun laws in Japan are so strict that even when a police officer killed himself with one he was still charged.
xVl1B TIL a lottery scratcher in England was cancelled because too many customers could not figure out which is the higher of two negative numbers
Qpak TIL after the first version of Word was shipped, Microsoft sent the whole developer team to Cancun on vacation