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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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W4gL TIL In 1952, Kent cigarettes introduced an asbestos filter to protect its smokers
rRxL1 TIL in 2001, a scientist successfully trained pigeons to distinguish between paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Marc Chagall - including paintings the pigeons had never seen before.
wLeME TIL Hawaii has nearly one tourist die each week while engaged in common vacation activities like swimming, snorkeling, hiking and going on scenic drives
W7Vlo TIL “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” is mistranslated from Aramaic word for “rope” to the Greek word for “camel”.
grl64 TIL 850,000 people were tried in court for taking part in the Rwandan genocide, the last case ended in 2012