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TIL the Olympic flame in 1976 traveled by radio waves to a laser that lit the cauldron.

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8apVG TIL The beat "Shave and a haircut" used when knocking on doors is highly offensive in Mexico, as it is commonly used to stand in for the rhythmically similar vulgar phrase "chinga tu madre, cabrón" (English: "F*** your mother, asshole!")
x68G5 TIL some old British medicinal plant names have the suffix ‘wort’ with the first part of the name indicating the type of problem, giving us names like Liverwort, Spleenwort, Throatwort, Pilewort and Bollockwort
NWNe TIL that in 1991 World Table Tennis Championships North and South Korea participated as a unified team under the name “Korea” to beat the “unbeatable” Chinese team
W0rd TIL that in 2006, Fiji water ran an ad saying “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. Cleveland took offense to that and ran some tests - turns out Cleveland’s tap water is better than Fiji’s bottled water.
m1r9p TIL that former US Surgeon General Antonia Novello's brother in law is Saturday Night Live alum Don Novello, famous for his role as Father Guido Sarducci.