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TIL Michael Phelps has more Olympic medals (22) than Lithuania (21).

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DQmmY TIL the famous song "Singin' in the Rain" passed into public domain in the U.S. in January of this year.
ep87g TIL about Colin Watson, a rare egg collector who stole the eggs of rare and wild birds from protected wildlife sites throughout Great Britain, amassing the largest collection in the UK. He died in 2006, falling out of a tree attempting to steal the eggs of a protected species.
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