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TIL of Pistol dueling at the Olympics. Competitors shot wax bullets at one another while wearing elaborate protection. The duels were held at 20 meters and 30 meters

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LZjZ TIL baloo from the Jungle Book is lazy because he’s literally supposed to be a “sloth bear”
4vvo TIL that Fox News threatened to sue the Simpsons in order to stop them from parodying its famously anti-democratic party agenda.
KONR4 TIL If you were to print a book writing out a Googolplex (10 to the power of a Googol(10 to the power of 100)) with each book having 400 pages and a mass of 100 grams (3.52oz) the amount of books required would have a mass greater then the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies combined.
8aPkV TIL Willie Nelson was close friends with Frank Sinatra, and they made a series of PSA's about space travel together in the 70s.
xVK4g TIL about the 'thousand-yard stare', which is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. It is also sometimes used more generally to describe the look of dissociation among victims of other types of trauma.