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TIL 65 nations refused to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afghanistan wasn’t one of them, sending 11 athletes to compete.

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16no8 TIL about Deborah Sampson. She disguised herself as a man so she could join the Continental Army and fight in the Revolutionary war. She was shot twice but fearing someone would find out her secret she removed one of the balls with a penknife and carried the other bullet in her leg her whole life.
1PD4 TIL fabric softeners carry a warning not to use them on children’s sleepwear but despite this, smiling happy babies feature heavily in its packaging and promotion.
R7MR4 TIL of a insurance dispute following the 9/11 attacks of whether or not the attacks constituted 1 or 2 events under the policy terms
69PBZ TIL The longest reverb in the world occurs in the bombproof Inchintown fuel tank built in the late 1930s/early 1940s in Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotland. It lasts for approximately 112 seconds.
698yW TIL that the county where Walt Disney World is located was originally called Mosquito County