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TIL Lithuania's Olympic basketball team was able to participate in the 1992 Games despite post-independence financial issues partly thanks to a sponsorship from the Grateful Dead. They returned home in tie dye uniforms with bronze medals.

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mvNx TIL In Qatar there is a sport called Robot Camel Racing where robots are placed on top of the camels are operated by a joystick, using the right hand to crack whips and the left to pull on the reins. by law they are the only jockeys allowed in Qatar.
kJPO1 TIL the Thousand-Year Rose, the world's oldest rose bush. Planted around 800 AD, it grows up the side of Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany
wLj7P TIL that the first crime ever recorded in Antarctica occurred when a Soviet scientist, upset at losing a chess game (to another Soviet scientist), attacked his opponent with an ice axe. It's unclear whether the attack was fatal or not, but the result was that chess was banned by the Soviets.
QJeX6 TIL of Alfred Mehran who lived for 18 years at Charles De Gaulle (CDG) airport, Paris.
N7OWQ Today I learned the Cornus Florida is the state tree for Virginia and Missouri, but not Florida.