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TIL that WWE holds a Pay Per View wrestling event called "Elimination Chamber", except it is known as "No Way Out" in Germany to avoid connotations of the gas chambers used during the Holocaust in WW2.

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v1RY4 TIL South Korean women are nearly 8 inches (~20cm) taller today than 100 years ago
vPEmx TIL Peter Norman, the white athlete standing on the podium in 1968 while Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power salute, was not selected to run in the 1972 Olympics for supporting his fellow athletes. He was not welcomed at the 2000 Olympics because he refused to renounce his actions.
g1D9 TIL that your poop is not mostly fiber. By mass, it’s mostly dead and alive bacteria. Mostly alive.
arw9 TIL Over 500 people have been killed by tasers in the U.S. since 2001
QJ18e TIL of Richard Pavlick, a retired postal worker who slipped past the Secret Service on a mission to assassinate president-elect JFK in 1960. Pavlick decided not to attempt the assassination because he did not wish to harm Kennedy's wife and children.