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TIL Sumo wrestlers throw salt before a match to purify and sanitize the ring, how they throw is up to them.

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dWPZ TIL that the oldest known joke in history is an ancient Sumerian joke about a woman farting in her husband’s company.
9wlWG TIL when Michael Jackson wanted to fire his father as a manager in 1979, he sent Joe documents when he (MJ) wasn't home. When they met to discuss, MJ brought his advisor along so he wouldn't be alone with Joe. “The fact you can’t even talk to me unless you have this guy here. It hurts me, Michael"
m1Vrp TIL that Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat, controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research and was the richest man in modern Italian history.
Z8doY TIL if you feed canaries red peppers, they will change color.
M7XkA TIL of the Pigmy Three-Toed Sloth on the Panama island of Escudo will only eat the leaves of Red Mangrove trees which contain a fungus with a chemical profile similar to Valium, leaving the sloths in what seems like a life-long high from their main diet