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TIL that in Thailand, There is a program where prison inmates fight each other in combat sports where whoever wins gets a sentence reduction or even freedom

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D176P TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger paid Austria to ship him the exact same tank he drove when he was a soldier. It is fully operable (minus the gun) and he uses it to support his fundraising efforts.
VoQQ TIL insurance policies are available in case you hit a hole-in-one while playing golf to cover your bar tab.
gML4X TIL: Before being a comedian, Burt Kreischer was featured in Rolling Stone for being a prolific 25 year old student partier at FSU and is thought to be the inspiration for Van Wilder.
4XQy6 TIL that Vatican City has the highest wine consumption per capita in the world. The average citizen consumes 76 bottles per year
MeDGa TIL: According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech, but more likely began as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.