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TIL that in 2009 a Belgian bodybuilding championship was canceled after doping officials arrived unannounced and all the competitors fled

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Bgyeb TIL that until as recent as 2019 children in Vale de Salgueiro, northeast Portugal, were allowed to smoke cigarettes freely to celebrate Epiphany (January 6th)
MeAoK Today I learned that in the US all men between the ages of 18 and 25, must register for selective service (Formely the draft), failing to so may result in fines up to $250k, and up to 5 years of prison (felony), and may have impact on future rights, voting, grants etc. It has never applied to Women.
YpQkZ TIL AMD named their processors Ryzen because they couldn't get a trademark for Zen which is the name of the architecture.
ADoZg TIL Nicolas Cage once donated $2 million to Amnesty International for them to use to offer rehabilitation shelters, medical services and psychological and reintegration services to some of the 300,000 children forced to fight in conflicts across the world.
G5kQ TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden’s height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden’s corpse.