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TIL in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a central African country entered as Northern Rhodesia and left as Zambia becoming the first country to change its name and flag during the games.

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grWb7 TIL about Gardiners Island. 2nd largest private island in the US and owned by the same family since 1639. Located at the east end of Long Island, it's over 5 sq miles with 1,000 acres each of old growth forest and meadows. Captain Kidd buried treasure there, first lady Julia Tyler was born there.
nvX7 TIL that C. S. Lewis married a woman to remedy a deportation, honored his commitment when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, then fell in love with and re-married her while she was in the hospital. They lived as a married couple for three years before she passed away.
J7Ml TIL Wile E Coyote catches Roadrunner only once on the 31st anniversary episode of the series. He then hold up a sign that says “Okay wise guys, you always wanted me to catch him. Now what do I do?”
XE6k6 TIL A dog named Cactus ran an ultramarathon in the Sahara Desert just for fun, beating the majority of human runners.
PY1re TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer's tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas 'didn't want her looking too aggressively feminine'. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: 'No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire'.