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TIL South Africa Was Banned From the Olympics For 32 Years Due to Apartheid

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m8nM TIL that on Thanksgiving, Americans throw away the equivalent of FOUR Statues of Liberty (weight-wise) of turkey
d8B8Z TIL President Theodore Roosevelt was such a loud snorer that during his hospital stays he had a whole floor to himself so the other patients could sleep
W7x1A TIL that the reason Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it 'macaroni' was because at one time macaroni was slang for something very fashionable or trendy
ne0AG TIL of mother-in-law languages (also known as avoidance speech) which dictate that a new restricted speech style utilizing a different vocabulary, while retaining the normal phonology and grammar must be utilized in the presence of certain relatives (such a as mother-in-law) which are seen as taboo
R5ojl TIL that a bear was shot at a jazz festival. At the 2004 Kaslo Jazz Etc Festival in British Columbia, a black bear got too close to the audience listening to Jeff Healy because people lured the animal with food. As Healy and 1700 horrified people watched, the RCMP killed the bear with a shotgun.