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j4oX TIL in 1980, the Soviet Union refused to host the Paralympics claiming that none of their citizens suffered from disabilities.
wLY48 TIL The oldest-known message in a bottle was tossed overboard from a German ship in 1886 and found off the coast of Wedge Island, Australia earlier this year.
jQ4v TIL it is not coldest just before the dawn - it is coldest about an hour after dawn. The temperature only begins to increase once the incoming solar radiation overcomes the heat radiating away from earth.
X0MbE TIL Star Trek and Cheers were filmed next to each other at Paramount which led to many Cheers actors appearing in Star Trek and vice versa.
LmVZ TIL that Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it he turned in a paper from George Orwell and received a B-.