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TIL that starting this May, the Netherlands will no longer refer to itself as "Holland" in international events, seeking to draw tourists to lesser-visited areas as well as to deemphasize drug use and prostitution.

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epWmg TIL that San Marino has won three Olympic medals, all won at the 2020 Tokyo games. With 33,600 people, it is the smallest country by population to have won an Olympic medal.
KOoda TIL the actor for Gaston as Disney World killed himself after accidentally lighting a firework on his head
EdjP TIL that a 2005 study found that the scores of “wine experts” are essentially meaningless, revealing that a typical judge’s scoring of a wine varied by plus/minus four points over three blind tastings poured from the same bottle.
LQ060 TIL of the Order of the Solar Temple, a New Age cult that claimed to be founded on the ideals of the Knights Templar. In 1994, they were responsible for the death of a 3 month old baby in Quebec; some time after, many members committed mass suicide in France, Switzerland and Canada.
nePnr TIL While filming Leon The Professional, Natalie Portman helped Jean Reno quit smoking.