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TIL the Olympic torch lighting ceremony was started by the Nazis in 1936.

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jNQ1R TIL the real Erin Brockovich has a cameo in 'Erin Brockovich', as a waitress speaking to Julia Roberts. She is credited as 'Julia R.'
6E6yY TIL American Moose and European Elk are the same species and are only named differently due to language errors.
Z8n0Y TIL about Msscribe. Someone who had the Harry Potter Fanfiction community fooled for years. Or, as this video described her, "one of the internet's most impressive liars"
kJ404 TIL in 2016 a man ate a ghost pepper in an eating contest and drank 6 glasses of water to cool off. He vomited so much he tore a hole in his esophagus and was rushed to a hospital where doctors found his left lung collapsed. He spent 23 days in the hospital and was sent home with a gastric tube.
PYAoO TIL there is a law in over 9 US states that forbids registered sex offenders from handing out candy or having Halloween lawn decorations on Halloween night