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TIL Russia has been stripped of 51 Olympic medals due to doping violations , 1/3 of the global total.

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44Go TILcolombian druglord Carlos Ledger had so much money. He offered to pay Colombia’s external debt. Not once but twice.
16xxP TIL in the 1974 NHL the Buffalo Sabres drafted a fictional Japanese player, Taro Tsujimoto, in the 11th round because their general manager was frustrated on how long the draft process was taking
groX9 TIL the average minor spends about 7 hours per week with their father, but about 15 hours a week on video games.
WkWdX TIL that the 1978 Dodge Sportsman van disguised as an ambulance driven by Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in the movie 1981 "The Cannonball Run" was actually the real vehicle used by Brock Yates and Hal Needham in what was the final Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash held in 1979.
KYX4R TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft