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TIL- that a student intercepted the torch relay in the lead up to the 1956 Melbourne olympics and handed a silver chair leg with some burning underwear to the mayor of Sydney who promptly started his speech.

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wJM1 TIL that The largest cave in the world is in Vietnam and it’s so big that it has its own river, jungle and climate.
8gmK TIL that the Infinite Monkey Theorem, stating that monkeys with typewriters and enough time could produce the entire works of Shakespeare, has been tried out in real life. They wrote five pages of S, slammed the keyboard with a stone and took a shit on it.
b9B70 TIL that there have been two successful penile transplants in South Africa, as well as an UNSUCCESSFUL one in China that had to be reversed because the wife of the forty-four-year-old recipient panicked at the idea that he now had someone else's penis
Y7yVW TIL Isaac Newton was extremely religious, and he rejected the Trinity.
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