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Today I learned there has been 61 Olympic game defectors

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nDoo TIL Twix has slumped in size from 60g in the 1980s to 58g in the 2000s to 50g in 2015
xK4b TIL of an art movement called “Rock Balancing” which involves the stacking of rocks in what often appear to be impossible positions, without the use of adhesives or outside support.
NnJQ TIL that according to English law, the “Ancient Lights law” states that the owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more can forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him/her of that illumination or “their portion of natural light”
P08E TIL CIA’s official motto is “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
Gj6E TIL that Joseph Haydn, a classical music composer, wrote a musical piece in which the musicians gradually leave the stage until 2 violins are left in the end