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TIL learned Kyiv’s mayor is a former heavyweight boxing champion

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jKdQ TIL: The Soviet Union held it’s own version of the Olympic Games in which anyone could participate. The number of participants one year reached 90 million people.
wLOvE TIL Tim Hortons, Hudson Bay Company, Canada Goose, Molson Canadian are all no longer Canadian companies
e5Y6 TIL Martin Luther King Jr’s older sister Willie Christine King Farris is still living at the age of 88.
MZQb TIL that dandelions can be used to produce rubber. Car tires made from dandelions are in development.
yQxdV TIL that Yellow River (Huang He) in China had shifted its course in 1855 when the river breaches its northern levees, causing the river mouth to be shifted hundreds of kilometres, from Yellow Sea south of Shandong Peninsula, to Bohai Sea, north of Shandong Peninsula.