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TIL that the Soviet Union still has the most medals for Volleyball at the Olympics

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XNmR TIL that nuclear fission can occur naturally. 2 billion years ago, multiple reactions took place in what is now known as Oklo
J16x1 TIL that (former) Dutch footballer Dennis Bergkamp is afraid of flying to the point that he would take car/ferry/train to away games, or not travel at all. His Aviophobia gave him the nickname of the "Non-Flying Dutchman".
Oo6V7 TIL in the 90s, Tina Turner left America and started living in Switzerland. She now is a Swiss citizen, lives permanently in a village in the Alps, and has stated: "I could not imagine a better place to live."
J1XWl TIL in 2016, a man who had been stalking “iCarly” actress Miranda Cosgrove shot at a woman in a car near Cosgrove's home before lighting himself on fire and fatally shooting himself in Cosgrove's yard. Two years prior, she was granted a restraining order against a different stalker.
gMKZW TIL Mongolians invented minced/ground meat. They often had to eat while horseback riding, so they wrapped a few slices of meat under their saddles so it would crumble under pressure and motion and be cooked by heat and friction.