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TIL that Chile's only two Olympic gold medals were both won in men's tennis in 2004

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8BNX TIL that Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the World Towers for 45 minutes in 1974. He performed stunts and even lay down on the rope during this time. He was arrested afterward and, when asked why he did it, he said: “When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk.”
OGXng TIL that in 2023, a man in Peru was caught with a restaurant delivery bag containing a mummified corpse 600 to 800 years old. The man said the mummy was his "spiritual girlfriend" and referred to it as Juanita. When authorities confiscated the mummy and examined it, it turned out to be a male.
kOnpB TIL - Ants eat more meat than lions, tigers and wolves combined
y49e TIL that Coke Zero is specifically marketed toward men, who were shown to associate Diet Coke with femininity.
ZpPvD TIL by eating sausages during Lent in 1522, Christoph Froschauer and Huldrych Zwingli defied Church fasting rules, igniting the Swiss Reformation.