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

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YQVW TIL a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving a fatal dose of cyanide to all 16 people in the bank under the pretense of a routine dysentery inoculation
NynE TIL that in addition to having the same social structure as bees, being resistant to cancer, and able to live up to 31 years, naked mole rats also have no pain sensation in their skin.
m1bOM TIL that the state of Georgia supplied arms to a volunteer battalion that served in the Texas Revolution. Most of the military unit was executed by Mexican forces after losing the Battle of Refugio and in the Goliad massacre of 1836.
KOx4w TIL that the A and B rings of Saturn (the most visually prominent rings) are hundreds of thousands of kilometers wide, but only 5-15 and 10-30 meters thick, respectively.
YVlZ TIL:While in a fight, an Oklahoma man gave his stepfather an ‘atomic wedgie’, causing death by asphyxiation. When interviewed he said:” Man, I did a horrible thing when I gave him that wedgie.”