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TIL Snoop Dogg tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for a music video shoot

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wLV51 TIL about the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, a detailed annual record which a king was never allowed to read, to maintain its impartiality. One time, a king told others to keep his falling off a horse secret from the scribe. His request was recorded.
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J1Zol TIL that Judith Deutsch-Haspel, the most decorated competitive swimmer in Austria in 1935, refused to compete in Hitler's 1936 Olympics, along with two other Jewish women swimmers. Austria erased her from the record books and banned her from future competitions.