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TIL to combat soldier fatigue and promote aggression the Nazis distributed Crystal Meth to soldiers

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9Y0YD TIL there is a hotel in Auckland next to a giant bungee tower, and the hotel doesn't inform the guests that screaming people will be plummeting past their hotel room windows.
ANwEl TIL that, in addition to the regular art events, the 1936 Olympic Games also featured an unofficial dance exhibition
P1gNJ TIL that all but three mammals have seven cervical (neck) vertebrae, the exceptions being the manatee (6), two-toed sloth (5 or 6), and three-toed sloth (9).
b9mWN TIL that after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian basketball team couldn't afford to participate in the 1992 Olympics, so the Grateful Dead funded the team's expenses, and the team wore tie-dye uniforms.
EX8d TIL U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not grow up speaking English. Instead, he spoke a creole language known as Gullah that began among coastal slave communities. Thomas has said the reason he rarely speaks publicly is because he does not want any traces of it to come out in his speech