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TIL Bruce Willis has been sober since 1988
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TIL that between 1912 and 1948, art competitions were a part of the Olympics. Medals were awarded for architecture, music, painting, and sculpture.
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TIL a fully loaded C-130 Hercules can carry $2.4b in cash. In 2003, twenty-one shipments of American cash totaling 363 tonnes were flown into Iraq. $6.6b of that money is totally unaccounted for and could be the largest cash theft in American history.
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TIL about breatharianism: the (false and deadly) believe that humans do not need food or water but can survice on sunlight alone.
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TIL the 1900 Summer Olympics had mail coach driving as an equestrian event. The contestants drove mail coaches drawn by four horses each, with the winners determined by a jury.
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TIL Professional Wrestlers would arbitrate backstage disputes in a wrestler’s court with the Undertaker usually presiding as judge. Sentences often involved the offending wrestler buying alcohol for other wrestlers.