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TIL with five titles, Finland is the topmost winner of the European Championship of American football since the championship began in 1983

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10pd TIL that Jeff Bridges spent over a decade trying to bring “The Giver” to the screen, and wanted his father Lloyd Bridges to play the title character. By the time production actually started, his father was dead and he was old enough to play the role himself.
klME TIL that East Germany lives on - as a tiny island off Cuba. In 1972, Fidel Castro gifted the island to East Germany. The island was not addressed in the 1990 reunification, and as such is still technically East German territory, even though the nation no longer exists.
R5d8w TIL Mozart composed a song called "Lick Me In The A**" - and by extension, we're much more prudish now about bodily humour than we were in the past.
rR99w TIL about “Charlie the Horse” who survived being trapped by the Frank Slide for a month but then died gorging on brandy and oats provided by his rescuers.
BrLRy TIL: about Gain Of Function research, or the modification of dangerous viruses to become deadlier and more transmissible. Advocates argue it can help ready us to identify pandemics easier, critics say we're risking millions of lives. A moratorium on GoF research was ended in 2019.