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TIL - In 1996 Woody Harrelson was arrested for climbing the Golden Gate bridge to hang a banner protesting the destruction of the Redwood forest.

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eklg TIL that a father murdered 2 people after they ‘unfriended’ his daughter on Facebook.
E1rko TIL The USA won the last ever Olympic gold medal for rugby in 1924 and are therefore technically still reigning champions.
Z8YDQ TIL in 1958 A chemical operator at Los Alamos was killed after plutonium in a mixing tank went supercritical, exposing him to over 30Gy of hard radiation. After 24 hours his bone marrow contained no red blood cells
wvw8 TIL That the record for the Men’s High Jump hasn’t been broken since 1993. The Women’s record hasn’t been broken since 1987.
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