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TIL the 1904 Olympic marathon was the sketchiest Olympic event in history

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gMW84 TIL Jackie Chan once fled to the USA to avoid Hong Kong triads. He claims they once shot at him while he was getting off of a plane and that he later was surrounded by "more than 20 people ... with melon knives ... [I] confronted them with two guns and six grenades".
wL7nY TIL: There are pyramids in Mauritius. The builders have not been identified and many people write off as "just piles of rocks" despite them having an uncanny resemblance to many other pyramids in Tenerife and Sicily 1000s of miles away
L9Gm TIL that because of Delaware, corporate transparency is essentially a joke in the US. Delaware gets a huge portion of the state budget from incorporations while asking little about the identity of the true owner which attracts major money laundering criminals from all over the world.
ANYRw TIL there is a movement to recover and preserve “heritage apples,” those forgotten once commercial growers settled on a few varieties to mass grow. Over a thousand have been found so far.
oMo8 TIL on 3rd July 1988 the US Navy shot down a civilian passenger flight killing all 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew.