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TIL that half the world watches live broadcasts of the Olympics

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0dXXL TIL of William Walker, an American physician, lawyer, journalist, mercenary, slavery supporter, and Southern folk hero from from Tennessee. Walker seized control of Nicaragua from 1856 to 1857, and convinced many U.S. Southerners of the desirability of creating a Confederate empire in Latin America.
804L TIL William Hung of American Idol fame gave up his music career in 2011 to become a Technical Crime Analyst for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
VMoQZ TIL As of May 2018, the smell of Play-Doh is trademarked. It is described as “a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.”
8a7Ra TIL that sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is currently using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Over 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
ZpdnB TIL modesty can be fatal. Studies reveal people often refuse to remove wet clothes in freezing conditions, risking deadly hypothermia, or strip for anthrax decontamination showers, delaying lifesaving measures, increasing toxin exposure, and creating challenges for emergency responders.