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TIL: Belarusians are the Heaviest Drinkers in the World

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6E7W TIL: Irena Sendler, a woman who saved 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust was beat out for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for Al Gore and global warming.
5Vlp TIL there are only two words that end in -gry. Angry and hungry.
4k66o TIL: Dreamworks had to pay a 7 figure settlement for infringement after the 2005 film "The Island" bore a striking resemblance to the 1979 film "Parts: The Clonus Horror"
eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
p8g5N TIL the Gendarmerie of Haiti, the collaborationist police-force raised by the USA during its occupation of Haiti in the early 1900s, sent a rifle team of indigenous gendarmes to the 1924 Olympics. The team won the nation's first-ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in the team free rifle event.