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TIL that Spain cheated in the Paralympics, sending multiple players without disabilities to the games

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dDX5r TIL That Taylor Swift’s merchandise was banned in China for saying “T.S. 1989” because the government was afraid that people would associate it with the Tienanmen Square massacre that occurred in 1989. However, it was then unbanned because the government didn’t want people questioning it.
rNGW0 TIL Samsung created a butt shaped robot that sits on their phones to test their durability. The robot exerts 220 pounds of pressure on their phones during testing. The robot even wears jeans.
nWeno TIL that Ted Fujita of tornado scale fame lived in a city slated to be atomic bombed. Nagasaki was chosen instead, and Fujita's research on the effects of the bombs helped him to understand downbursts and microbursts.
lXGG TIL a World of Warcraft player had 36 accounts on 11 computers simultaneously and raided by himself
x6565 TIL of the Civil Cooperation Bureau, a government death squad in Apartheid South Africa. Accused of murders, they also bombed a kindergarten, harassed a dissident by pointing a RPG7 at him while forcing him to drink moonshine, and tried to bewitch Desmond Tutu by hanging a baboon fetus in his home.