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TIL about Turkish oil wrestling a traditional sport where participants called pehlivan (wrestlers) or baspehlivan (master wrestlers), wrestle while covered in oil which makes it harder to grab each other

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grZvD TIL: Plants uptake prions from contaminated soil and transmit it to animals
0wXaj TIL:"no body, no murder" rule have arisen from the "Campden Wonder" case occurred in the 1660s A local man vanished and after an investigation, three individuals were hanged for his murder. Two years later, the supposed victim appeared, telling a story of having been abducted and enslaved in Turkey
7rLb TIL The longest free-fall in history was 102,800 feet, done by Joseph Kittinger. He fell from outer-space, reaching a speed of 614 mph.
MenLB TIL that if February, Germany charged a 95 year old woman with 10,000 counts of aiding and abetting murder because she was a stenographer for a SS officer at a concentration camp when she was 17. She lives in a nursing home, but if the case goes to trial, she will be tried in juvenile court.
JYZbQ TIL: The Cowardly Lion costume in the Wizard of Oz was made of real lion fur, skin and human hair. It recently sold at auction for 3 million dollars.