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TIL Vladimir Putin is a black belt in Judo and produced an instructional video called “Lets Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin” in 2008.

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bQp4 TIL that the shortest commercial flight in the world is 2.8 km long and lasts 47 seconds
JeWQ TIL a father and young son were kidnapped and brought to a construction site where the kidnappers cut the father’s throat from ear to ear, shot the son 3 times, then the kidnappers buried them. The father escaped, walked ¼ mile, and flagged down a police officer. He survived. The son did not.
AGaa TIL Traci Johnson, a healthy 19-year-old college student volunteer enrolled in a clinical trial for the antidepressant Cymbalta and shortly after hung herself at the testing facility.
loJ1r TIL that England used to have a tax based on your number of windows. This mostly led to the building of homes with fewer windows (giving rise to the phrase "daylight robbery"), but conversely also led to some of the rich building homes with an intentionally large amount of windows in order to flex.
b9YX9 TIL a Texas plumber's truck traded to a dealership, then auctioned and shipped to Turkey with his business' decals still on it. The truck eventually ended up in Syria, where it was outfitted with an anti-aircraft gun and used in the country’s civil war.