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TIL Surya Bonaly landed a back flip on one foot during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics

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OoGJ6 TIL that the New Zealand badminton team at one time tried to combine their "All-Blacks" nickname, with a badminton shuttlecock, resulting in their team being nicknamed "The Black Cocks" for a while.
oBLRL TIL of James Dean’s 1955 Porsche “Little Bastard” which is rumored to be cursed. The body has disappeared, and parts that were salvaged and went on other cars often caused tragedies.
Ylpr TIL Cat kidneys are so efficient, they can survive on a diet consisting only of meat, with no additional water, and can even rehydrate by drinking seawater.
EKX0 TIL Bobby Fischer developed a variant of chess where the starting positions were randomized because he thought too many top level players were simply memorizing opening positions
p8xGQ TIL the origins for the nursery rhyme "Rub a dub dub" was actually about shaming otherwise resectable people for going to peep shows.