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TIL the Olympic Games paused for 1500 years and then resumed in 1896.

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w9xW TIL the last person Tupac spoke to was a police officer. The cop held a dying Tupac in his arms and the cop asked Tupac to tell him who shot him. Tupac looked at the cop and said “F**k you.” Those were Tupac’s last words.
OGO9e TIL that during the American Revolutionary War,the Doan Outlaws, a gang of Quaker brothers from Pennsylvania,acted as British spies, stole over 200 horses to sell to the Redcoats, and in 1781 robbed the Bucks County treasury of £1,307, making it one of the largest public fund thefts in U.S. history.
Y7Q0B TIL The oldest known bonsai are Ficus Bonsai in Crespi, Italy and Old juniper Bonsai tree at Mansei-en, Japan, which are over a 1000 years old.
p8Rr8 TIL It is so cold in Svalbard, they cannot properly bury anyone in a coffin, since the body won't decompose.
oKLW TIL that “alibi” is latin for “elsewhere”