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TIL scientists don't know what makes the stones curl across the ice in Olympic curling and despite a number of studies, it remains an unsolved mystery for physicists

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neVeP TIL that during the thunderous applause following his famous 'We shall fight on the beaches' speech to the to the House of Commons in 1940, Winston Churchill whispered to a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!".
80db TIL the first American spy satellites literally dropped their film from space in a “film bucket” that was then scooped up in midair by a plane.
XXJR TIL that a Cosplaying “Dark Elf” was arrested after he dropped acid and attacked a woman’s red BMW, mistaking it for Morgoth.
e0JeL TIL that Japan's population is rapidly declining, and Tohoku University established a countdown to national extinction - research estimates that the nation "will have only one remaining child in 4025".
VOyk TIL that almost a third of Dubai’s GDP comes from its airport, which contributes around $22 billion towards Dubai’s GDP.