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TIL about the Buzkashi; the national sport of Afghanistan, which includes horseback riding with a dead goat, and can last for several days.

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VBXpk TIL of 'Newman Day', an unofficial holiday at some US Colleges, including Princeton and Yale, in which students aim to drink 24 cans of beer in 24 hours. Based on an apocryphal remark by Paul Newman, about "24 hours in a day and 24 cans in a case", the actor (an alcoholic) abhorred the 'holiday'.
mxnxx TIL that 7 Up launched a variation called "dnL" (the 7up logo turned upside down) and was basically the opposite of 7 Up: instead of a caffiene-free clear soda in a green bottle, it was a caffienated green soda in a clear bottle, and instead of lemon-lime the flavor was lime-lemon.
eR54 TIL that in 2008 the NHL banned Detroit Zamboni drivers from twirling octopuses over their heads. The ban was later relaxed to allow for some twirling.
PYwGe TIL Someone in the distant past took a poop in a cave, and then 14,000 years later scientists in an advanced civilization are now fawning all over that piece of poop, making it perhaps one of the most valuable pieces of poop in history.
8BEP TIL that at the end of 2006, Reddit only had 39 subreddits. More than 340,000 subreddits were created since then.