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TIL: Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic achievements are still not recognized by the IOC.

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4mb6 TIL that 99 percent of Sweden’s garbage is now recycled and that they import waste from UK, Italy, Norway, and Ireland for its 32 waste-to-energy (WTE) plants.
MoZV TIL 10-18 million Africans were taken by Arab slavers. This is more than the 12 million Africans shipped in the Atlantic slave trade, and 16-30 times more than the 600,000 slaves imported to America since 1620, which is less than the more than 1 million whites enslaved by Ottoman vassals.
LQkYQ TIL that the first Fast and Furious movie was loosely based on Rafael Estevez' street racing career, and the first drag wars which was sponsored by Penzoil and HKS, in which he did a 11.36 second pass with a turboed Integra GSR engine in a 92 Civic, claiming the title of fastest east coast civic.
VMV1Q TIL that there is a bear company in Vermont that will do ‘surgery’ on your stuffed friend and send you pictures of their recovery!
9kWm TIL in the 17th century in the Netherlands, there was a tulip flower bubble that allowed tulip traders to earn the equivalent of almost $62,000 USD a month.