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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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DRnJ TIL A group of amateur scientists launched 200 paper airplanes from an elevation of 23 miles with a weather balloon. Launched in Germany, the airplanes flew as far as Canada, Australia, India, and even South Africa.
wLEW TIL the leadership of the Communist Party of China are mostly professional engineers, thus China is in fact a Technocracy.
PoXJ TIL Hitler had an Irish nephew called William Patrick Hitler. He thought Adolf was a perverted madman and after emigrating from Ireland to the US he ended up enlisting to fight against his uncle in the medical corps
4keBX TIL of Peter Buxtun, a Public Health Service epidemiologist, exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by filing two protests with his superiors. His actions led to the story making the front page of The New York Times the following day and prompted the call for congressional hearings.
BrrDk TIL that the sperm count of males in westernized countries is down by a staggering 59.3%. This change has taken place in just the past 40 years and something needs to be done about it.