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TIL that despite never getting any snow locally, Thailand has won 9 of the last 20 International Snow Sculpture Competitions held in Sapporo, Japan. They’re currently on a 3 year winning streak.

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YJmx TIL the Vatican’s chief astonomer, Fr. George Coyne said, “Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”
rk8x TIL a 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.
RyM9 TIL American socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland tried to ‘cure’ her sons homosexuality by forcing him to sleep with her. She ended up being murdered by him. After his release from prison Antony Baekeland tried to kill his grandmother as well.
Oo0Xe TIL NBC refused to produce a Seinfeld episode where—in the script—George got in trouble for saying he’s never seen a black person ever order a salad.
n9DP TIL when Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”