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TIL: In 1978 Soviet Geologists found a family of six surviving in the middle of Siberia who hadn’t seen another human since 1936.

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D1eWY TIL Lawrence Kasdan, the writer for Return of the Jedi, favored having Luke kill Darth Vader and ruling in his place.
ADaOg TIL after winning the gold at the 1980 Olympics, Polish vaulter Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz, in defiance of the jeering Soviet crowd, flipped "the arm", twice. The Soviets later asked that he be stripped of his medal to which the Polish government replied that it was caused by "involuntary muscle spasms".
Rov1 TIL: Japan’s 2022 Fifa’s world cup bid included projecting 3D holograms of the games live onto fields across the world.
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