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TIL China has a huge national run sports program

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loGMV TIL chickens eat mice. Once the chickens are asleep, the mice come out to play.
NJ5e TIL that in 2007 the head of NASA called the Space Shuttle a big mistake. He wrote that had the agency instead continued using the Apollo-Saturn system that went to the moon, “we would be on Mars today”.
awaDb TIL there are more than 2,000 variants of the game Chess including: Chad, Rollerball, Atomic, Beirut, Jedi Knight, Hexagonal, Schroedinger's, Kung-fu, Apocalypse, Crazyhouse, Einstein, Crazyhouse, Weird, Martian, Sniper, Synchronous, Knightmare, Hostage, Spartan, Extinction, Infinite & Kamikaze.
ANZDa TIL there was once a project to build a canal across Florida to shorten the route between the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. It was about half completed when President Nixon cancelled it for environmental reasons.
QxO9 TIL Due to effective use of protection, Prostitutes in Australia have a lower rate of STD/STI’s than teenage girls aged 14 to 19.