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TIL that Jesus Christ was declared King of Poland in 2016

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O5we TIL the winners of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin received an oak tree as a gift from Hitler.
8ebNP TIL that in 2005, Lionel Messi almost played for the Spanish national team, but he declined the offer and waited for Argentina to call him up!
JYRnV TIL Researchers in Norway have published a psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction, the first of its kind worldwide.
JYNg4 TIL that the term "Going Postal" originated in the USA in 1990s following a several incidents from 1986 onward, in which individuals working for the United States Postal Service workers shot and killed fellow workers and members of the public.
5YJXr TIL A giant virus has been discovered with its own immune system. French scientists found these giant virus defence mechanisms work in a similar way to the CRISPR-Cas system, whereby the virus learns to recognise invaders, capture their genetic material and use this information to destroy them.