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

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VMxEB TIL The organizers of the 2022 World Games excluded the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois) team because it wasn't a "sovereign nation." The Ireland team has bowed out to allow the game's inventors, who are also ranked 3rd worldwide, to play.
VBkOZ TIL Gulf War Syndrome is not related to PTSD, but most likely due to sarin gas exposure
VManD TIL people who speak Icelandic can still understand the old Icelandic Sagas because of how little the language has changed over the past 1000 years.
W7EmA TIL Danny Trejo has a cookbook
LGwp TIL Turkish Maroon Berets(special forces) has a training program called The Trust Shot. It consists of two members of a squad standing next to paper target boards, while another member fires on the targets with a handgun while walking towards them from 15 meters (50 feet) away.