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TIL : The French have a traditional Martial Art where one fights with a cane, developed by French gentlemen in the 19th century in big unsafe cities.

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VMMAk TIL James Watson (DNA co-inventor), had to auction off his Nobel Prize Medal in 2014 due to poverty. A Russian billionaire bought it for $4.1M and returned it back to Watson stating, "a situation in which an outstanding scientist has to sell a medal recognising his achievements is unacceptable."
ADAEa TIL a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers in 2008. While other employees attempted to help him, the shoppers were unconcerned with the victim's fate and refused to halt their stampede, complaining that they were not willing to wait in the cold any longer.
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R7NXw TIL in the 50s there was a nuclear bomb test in the Australian Outback. Aboriginals thought a spirit killed all of the kangaroos for them. They ate them and died of radiation poisoning.
wLjAo TIL that people who look young for their age have a higher life expectancy than those who don't.