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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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vPRMx TIL Virgil McCroskey purchased 4,400 acres of land for tourism in Idaho on the condition he maintain it himself for 15 years; McCroskey accepted the terms, and lived exactly 15 more years, fulfilling his obligation to the state of Idaho just weeks before his death in 1970 at age 93.
VwP8 TIL that there are more overweight people than starving people in the world
k6le TIL the Parthenon became a mosque in 1456 until it was destroyed in 1687
woMbY TIL: USSR used nuclear bomb to stop gas well blowout in Uzbekistan
Wk5Jd TIL The US Government attempted a project in the 60s which involved dropping silver iodide into active hurricanes in hopes of weakening the storms. While it did show promising results for the time, later research into the behavior of cyclones have called the results into question.