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TIL dueling with wax bullets was once an Olympic sport

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WMPX TIL Patrick Stewart left his bags unpacked for the first six weeks of filming Star Trek: TNG because he thought the show would fail.
KObOa TIL a Japanese company makes chopsticks out of broken baseball bat's.
l9la TIL that during the Hungarian Uprising, Radio Bucharest was raided by the Soviets in early October 1956, leaving only one western recording for the station to play: My Boy Lollypop by Barbie Gaye. The station played the song non stop for over a month, making it very much the song of the revolution.
x6bB1 TIL about the Chicha de Jora, a colombian drink that is a variant of the Popular maize chicha, but this is made chewing the clumps of maize and thanks to the salive enzymes, the maize is fermented in the mouth and latter is spitted to a bowl.
j6yrR TIL Linda Guillory holds the world record for both: the largest collection of playable gaming systems with 2,430 and the largest collection of LCD gaming systems with 1,599.