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TIL About the “Cicada Brood X” and its 17-Year Life Cycle
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TIL: Of the 22 people voted to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, 15 of them are are now either banned from FIFA for life, suspended, imprisoned, or fighting extradition to the USA to face federal charges. Only one still actually works for FIFA
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TIL that in 1998 CNN ran a false news report, accusing American soldiers of using sarin gas in a rescue mission titled, “Operation Tailwind” during the Vietnam War. The report would later go on to become the basis of a storyline in HBO’s The Newsroom.
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TIL: There’s now a thing called “Palentine’s Day” to celebrate friendship instead of just love.
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TIL Nevada is the owner of the mcfarthest spot: the spot in US that is the most distant from a McDonalds. The nearest McDonalds is 115 miles from the spot.
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TIL about Tuffi the elephant. In 1950 Tuffi the elephant survived a fall from the suspended railway (Schwebebahn) into the river Wupper 12 meters below with just minor injuries. She went on to work in circuses until her death in 1989.