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TIL that Pro boxing was banned in Sweden in 1970 after a study found that it involved severe and even life-threatening injuries, had a brutalising effect on the audience and was governed by unsound economic interests.

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9YlQ6 TIL one of the largest earthquakes in North American history occurred on January 26, 1700. It was only documented by oral history in the First Nations populations, and collaborated by a Japanese record of a tsunami around the same time.
WkwEB TIL A 40,000-year-old bracelet was found in Siberia. It was made by an extinct human species called Denisovans. Homosapians did not produce bracelets of this technical sophistication until 10,000 years ago. It is one of the oldest pieces of jewellery ever discovered.
KdV6 TIL Bill Clinton gave the 1994 State of the Union Address completely from memory. When he saw the wrong speech had been uploaded to the teleprompter, he quickly recovered and said “I’m not at all sure what speech is in the teleprompter tonight, but I hope we can talk about the State of the Union.”
8eanV TIL that at the height of its power the Hudson’s Bay Company claimed eight million square kilometres in North America as its own and even had its own currency called "Made Beaver" (it valued goods by placing them against the standard of one prime beaver pelt)
rRNl4 TIL The brightest things in the universe are quasars, which can be 429 trillion times brighter than our sun.