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TIL that during the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin there was a gliding competition as a demonstration sport

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Pe4g TIL Lawrence Singleton served just eight years in prison after raping a fifteen-year-old girl and cutting her arms off with a hatchet, California law was changed as a result. He went on to kill again.
8G0a TIL through years of natural selection due to epidemics in Europe, a percentage of people of European decent carry the gene CCR5. Of that population, some have a CCR5-32 Delta mutation which makes them immune to HIV.
RLAj TIL that until 2005, Toronto had a St. James-Bond Church, formed by the 1928 merger of the Bond Street Congregational Church and the St. James Square Presbyterian Church.
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Z9L4 TIL that peeing after sex has never been shown in studies to reduce your chance of getting a bladder infection