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TIL There’s a Mysterious Village That Was Discovered In Canada, That Is 10,000 Years Older Than The Pyramids

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kJk9E TIL Art competitions were part of the Olympics from 1912–1948. In fact, Monaco won their only Olympic medal in 1924, in architecture.
8aV1X TIL that former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il secretly studied English on the small island of Malta in the 1970s . His English teacher, Prof. Daniel Massa, said that he used to become irritable when hungry, especially when lessons overstepped their time limit and impinged on his lunch break.
Z8QOv TIL that in a zoo, tigers and lions are fed ice cubes made by freezing the blood known as "bloodsicles." This is done to provide cooling to them in a hot weather.
7r1YO TIL Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has ruled that chess is forbidden in Islam, saying it encourages gambling and is a waste of time.
LQPp TIL the World’s Greatest Living Explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, was thrown out of the SAS for blowing upa movie set, climbed Everest to get rid of his vertigo, did 7 marathons in 7 days a few months after heart bypass surgery, amputated his own fingers and was considered for the role of James Bond.