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TIL that despite the participation of more than thirty tropical countries at one point or another, none has ever won a Winter Olympic medal yet.

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78PmP TIL that according to former employees, the painter Thomas Kinkade, known for his enormously popular prints and hundreds of licensed galleries, once urinated on a statue of Winnie the Pooh at Disneyland, and repeatedly shouted "codpiece" at a Las Vegas magic show until his mother calmed him down.
oOJR TIL Siri was supposed to be for Android and BlackBerry phones before Siri, Inc. was bought by Apple back in April of 2010
lO4G TIL a 14 year old Japanese boy murdered Jun Hase, his 11 year old classmate at Tomogaoko junior high school and put his head next to the school’s gate “because he felt resentment against the school he has been going to.”
VyYp TIL there was a 1700s politician named John Strange, and his epitaph reads, “Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange.”
DOmv TIL CAPTCHA is an acronym: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”