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TIL Lance Armstrong, at the height of his doping behaviour in the 2000s, made a $100k donation to the international cycling federation to ‘fund the fight against doping’

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wLP6M TIL: Grand Theft Auto V broke industry sales records and became the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, earning $800 million in its first day and $1 billion in its first three days.
rbPx TIL that for the first 22 years of its history Georgia banned all lawyers from the colony. Founder James Oglethorpe denounced them as a ‘pest and scourge of mankind.’
V5AQ TIL workers excavating the World Trade Center site in 2010 dug up a ship from the 1700s made from the same wood as Independence Hall, where the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were signed.
WkO14 TIL that it was reported in 1987 a person committing suicide with four bullets in his own head, several other suicides were reported with two or more shots in the head, in medical journals
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