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TIL Olympic athletes may participate independently, without an associated country (they fly the Olympic flag)

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X05dR TIL that the singer from Cannibal Corpse is an expert at playing arcade claw machines, and donates the toys he wins to charity
N7kyQ TIL that on May 19th 1989, CBS broke into their primetime programming for over half an hour to broadcast a live dispute between the CBS News team and representatives of the Chinese government. (The government was terminating all foreign broadcasts in a lead up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre.)
V1M8 TIL that every unborn baby grows a moustache in the womb, which then spreads to cover the entire body. The baby then eats this fine hair, called lanugo, and excretes it after birth with their first bowel movement, which is a substance called meconium.
OLN1 TIL Prong Horned Antelopes have 10x vision, which means on a clear night they can see the rings of Saturn.
6E1Jl TIL Salvador Dali was attracted to Hitler "“I often dreamed of Hitler as a woman. His flesh, which I had imagined whiter than white, ravished me…”