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TIL Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann was an accomplished youth swimmer in East Germany and shortlisted for the 1980 summer olympics in Moscow but a head injury ended his career.

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kOGX4 TIL that a saxophone was among the casualties of the Challenger disaster.
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J9jQ TIL Kids In Cars 12 Times More Distracting For Drivers Than Talking On Cell Phones
m1d0Y TIL about the Egg fried rice protests by Chinese internet users against the government, occurring yearly around October 24, the birthday of Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong, or around November 25, the date of his death.
d8Vj9 TIL of McArthur Wheeler who, in 1995, robbed two Pittsburgh banks with his face covered with nothing but lemon juice, which he believed would make it invisible to the surveillance cameras on the principle of invisible ink