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TIL they’re building a 17 story tall waterslide that will propel a tube full of 4 people down at 65 mph

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v11bD TIL Solo Synchronized Swimming was a sport at the Olympic Games between 1984 and 1992.
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rRDe1 TIL that the idiom "spare the rod and spoil the child" isn't Biblical or about how to raise a child but actually a line out of Hudibras, a bawdy poem talking about BDSM, among other things...
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