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Today I learned there has been 61 Olympic game defectors

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Vndm TIL in 1988, Cuba was the only non-African nation to lend military support to anti-apartheid forces in South Africa that led to the successful defeat of US-backed mercenaries, and is an “example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism in the last decades of the twentieth century.”
XXyR TIL on the morning of D-Day, J.D. Salinger landed on Omaha Beach with six chapters of his unfinished novel Catcher in the Rye in his backpack.
go89 TIL Dolph Lundgren is the actor that has killed the most characters in action movies.
67oZ TIL the Mount Pelée volcanic eruption destroyed the adjacent city of St. Pierre with pyroclastic flow and only one man survived in place because he had been imprisoned in a poorly ventilated, dungeon-like cell
gr8jy TIL: Disney is contractually obligated to air The 700 Club, Pat Robertson's ultra-conservative Christian news magazine, three times a day on its Freeform cable channel, even though the rest of its shows have rather liberal themes. They play disclaimers beforehand to warn the audience.