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TIL that Tug of War was an Olympic sport. It was dropped after the Antwerp games in 1920 after a number of controversies.

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69WXW TIL Australia’s ‘worst female serial killer’ was exonerated; her 4 kids died from a very rare genetic mutation.
6PWZ TIL that there is an entire episode of “Full House” devoted to making fun of people who make duck faces.
bJk7 TIL that Dubai uses slave labor to build their skyscrapers.
jQGj TIL that after the British broke the enigma code based on a single flaw, they created their own similar code without that same flaw called “Typex”. The German military tried to crack it, but ultimately gave up.
J1Lx1 TIL that in 2017, “Big Tobacco” companies were finally forced to air ads in the US that admitted their products were deadly and addictive. This came after 11 years of appeals by the companies to delay and weaken the nature of the ads.