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TIL of Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian Jew who survived Mathausen concentration camp, was deliberately given dangerous assignments by an anti-Semitic sergeant in Korea, and spent 30 months as POW after being captured by the Chinese.

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W77Qd TIL that during the 1896 Olympics, nobody knew how to throw a discus because it was the first international discus competition ever. Greek competitors tried to imitate Myron's ancient greek discobolus statue, but the imitation was not required.
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XEPVQ TIL that bears are considered by many wildlife biologists to be one of the most intelligent land animals of North America. They possess the largest and most convoluted brains relative to their size of any land mammal. In the animal kingdom, their intelligence compares with that of higher primates.
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