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TIL that the administration of Pheasant Island, an uninhabited river island located between France and Spain, alternates between the two nations every 6 months.

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N7yX6 TIL that of the 77 Olympians competing in the golf tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 74 of them represented the USA and 3 of them represented Canada. Canada won the Gold.
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