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TIL the winner of Tour de France has been positive for doping 40 times in the past 53 years.

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DZar TIL that while awaiting his execution via guillotine, King Louis XVI of France actually pardoned his executioners for the crime of murdering their king.
8evpK [TIL] The Frisbee was created in the 1870's by someone throwing a pie tin. Fun fact, the pie company still exists and still sells pies.
BgRwr TIL my fitted sheets have a tag that indicates the side it should go on, thereby reducing the confusion about which is the long or short side.
J1OGj TIL about Capablanca chess. Invented in the 1920s by José Raúl Capablanca (world chess champion). It had two new pieces and played on a 10x8 board. He also had a 10x10 board version. Over the years this inspired many more variants.
VOkG TIL Japan outlawed production of child pornography in 1999 and just outlawed possession of child pornography in June 2014