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TIL that the Chinese Community Party under Mao banned Bodybuilding in 1953, calling it a "unproductive and narcissistic pursuit of beauty", the ban was lifted 30 years later

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R7Zl TIL A 17 yr. old woman fell 3 km into the Amazon rainforest when her plane disintegrated. She survived & walked 10 days before being rescued. All 91 of her co-passengers perished.
ep6oJ TIL that before he was an actor, Peter Dinklage was in a punk-funk-rap group called Whizzy. While playing at the famed CBGB nightclub, he was accidentally kneed in the face so hard that he started bleeding on stage and now has a scar running from his neck to his eyebrow.
mVZP TIL the cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names, with over 40 in English alone.
aww0J TIL Louis XIV's minister of finance had the huge Forest of Troncais created in 1670 to provide the future French Navy with a supply of oak masts. When the forest reached maturity 250 years later, the navy was busy switching to steam ships.
b9YVZ TIL that the aviation distress call "Mayday" was created in 1923 and derives from the French "m'aidez" or "help me"