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TIL Warner Bros Discovery bought the rights to distribute the Olympics coverage to all 50 European countries for Paris 2024 and the next 4 Olympics and limits national public broadcasters the amount of live coverage

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moxx TIL of Exercise Tiger, a preparation exercise resulting in more casualties than the actual Utah landing at Normandy months later. A terrible disaster, a complete information blackout was ordered
QJdde TIL Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to fight a silverback gorilla.
wLEPE TIL James Watt calculated horsepower by measuring the output of an actual horse in order to quantify how many horses his steam engines could replace.
lxGr TIL the grip of a sloth is so strong that sometimes when they die, they are found still clinging to the very branch they were lounging from when they were alive
gMg57 TIL 86% of Holy Water is Teeming with E Coli and other bacteria found in fecal matter.