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TIL the colors of the Olympic rings were chosen because they are the five colors that appear in every flag in the world.(minimum one colour)

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a8JpM TIL that Oliver Stone named the protagonist of Scarface (1983) after his favorite football player - Joe Montana
nWoNb TIL: There is a Japanese martial art of combative swimming called Suijutsu. Various styles existed such as the Iwakura Ryū which has techniques for unusual situations such as eating while in water and many schools taught methods of swimming in armor.