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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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yljV TIL Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was extremely racist & founded the organization with the hope that “feeble-minded” minorities would leave reproduction to “more suitable” races.
AN6Zn TIL In the 17th-18th century, people believed that tomatoes were poisonous and only used them for decoration until they were finally accepted as food.
7rmlM TIL that daith ear cartilage piercings can relieve some people of migraines by severing part of the vagus nerve
ne1VG TIL In May 1981 the citizens of Naphlion, Greece awoke to find small green frogs falling from the sky. The Greek Meteorological Institute surmised they were picked up by a very strong wind since the frog species was native to North Africa.
KY0XE TIL that when Cyclone Olivia struck Australia in 1996, an anemometer recorded a wind gust to 254 mph (408 km/hr). This is the fastest non-tornadic surface windspeed ever observed on Earth.