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TIL that athletes can compete as independent Olympians (not under a country’s flag) at the Olympic Games

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GYMEN TIL bottle caps are used to stop life-threatening bleeds for dialysis patients
E0mx TIL When 14-year-old George Stinney was executed in the electric chair he was too short for the chair so he used his Bible as a booster seat.
78Rwx TIL research on an ancient Phoenician shipwreck found near Sicily revealed that the ship's parts were designed to be easily assembled and each part was marked with a letter in their Alphabet, the first in the world
9Y80B TIL that Valentine's Day is the day that St. Valentine was beaten with clubs and tortured to death for performing secret marriages against the Emperor's wishes. The Emperor banned all marriages because soldiers didn't want to leave their families to fight in wars.
vGw4 TIL That African Time is a real thing. Instead of being a Time Zone, it is a perceived cultural tendency, in most parts of Africa, toward a more relaxed attitude to time.