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TIL a Japanese snowboard champion became a porn star, and recently came back to won national championship in Japan after only 4 days of training, and is now prepping for next winter Olympics

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p8aLQ TIL Belgium committed Genocide in Congo in a 52-year colonial rule, killing 10-15 million Congolese
mxALP TIL Francis Crick who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA was under the influence of LSD when he first made the discovery.
VBBp8 TIL The Greek physician Hippocrates noted that naturally fat people tend to die ealier than those who are slender. It is also better to be larger when young but a smaller stature is better in old age
Wk6Y4 TIL that US government spent 900 milion $ for Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques that proved to be fruitless and had no scientific background
ZMnR TIL Psy was arrested for possession of weed in 2002 and couldn’t attend his grandfather’s funeral