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TIL that Leni Riefenstahl had an affair with American Olympic decathlate Glenn Morris during the filming of "Olympia," Riefenstahl's documentary about the 1936 Berlin games

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e04Xn TIL that a urologist who lied about performing procedures on 2 patients, resulting in a nearly seven-year delay in diagnosing cancer in one patient, was only suspended for 1 month
9lNM TIL ‘The Bloop’, a loud and ultra-low frequency sound picked up by the NOAA in 1997 and heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, was not a “sea monster” but the sound of an ice shelf breaking off of Antarctica – an icequake.
KOV6Q TIL that, as of 2015, both George R.R. Martin and HBO wanted Game of Thrones to run for ten seasons.
Oo0bX TIL After getting fed up with poor driving manners, a retired schoolteacher in Lanzhou City in China began throwing bricks at cars which refused to yield to pedestrians. A few elderly men joined him, with onlookers providing them food and bricks. They damaged 30 cars before police stopped them.
yNxM TIL Maynard James Keenan from Tool once “spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience” when the band learned at the last minute that the venue belonged to L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology.