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TIL: Lutz Long a Nazi German long jumper who shared training tips to Jesse Owens and was the first to congratulate him despite being in in full view of Adolf Hitler

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mnrE TIL that when Montana imposed speed limits on former No Limit roads, traffic fatalities doubled.
Z8a9Y TIL It is possible to take a 10 hour train ride to a remote First Nations community in northern Quebec, Canada for just $175. The line is native owned with 80% aboriginal employees
kMMW TIL Switzerland has enough nuclear blast shelters to accommodate 114% of their population
9YLbB TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who saved the world from possible nuclear annihilation by breaking protocol, when on October 5th 1960, the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland falsely detected a level 5 ICBM attack due to the rising moon.
pl0Z TIL of Rabban Bar Sauma, a Christian monk from China who travelled from Beijing to Western France at the same time as Marco Polo travelled the opposite way