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TIL India and USA were the only two contingents that did not salute Hitler during the opening ceremony of the 1936 Berlin games

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J1nnl TIL - Rudolph the red nose reindeer there was a storyline about Yukon Cornelius finding a peppermint mine which would be deleted. In the special, you can still see Cornelius licking his pickaxe, but without mention of the peppermint mind viewers are left to wonder why exactly he’s doing that.
QelL TIL pigeons are not native to North America and that they live in urban areas because “city buildings and window ledges mimic the rocky cliffs originally inhabited by their ancient ancestors in Europe.”
J1N6V TIL that country music is big in many parts of Africa
DGvr TIL after musician Jonathan Coulton had his cover of “Baby Got Back” stolen for the TV series Glee, he rereleased his cover with the description “cover of Glee’s cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s song, which is to say it’s EXACTLY THE SAME as my original version”.
grYk8 TIL a 35-yr-old man found an age-progression image of himself on a missing children's site in 2010. Though he knew he was adopted, this would lead to him discovering that his mom had kidnapped him from his dad when he was an infant 34 years earlier.