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TIL in the 60s female track athletes were required to be examined naked to verify their sex.

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GY4d7 TIL that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase got into a fist-fight in John Belushi's dressing room when Chase returned to host SNL where Belushi acted as referee.
gMvp9 TIL in the original Greek democracy, elections were seen as undemocratic and oligarchic. To them everyone was equal so they selected their leaders randomly in a process called Sortition.
VMmpk TIL in 2015, a flight from the UK to Dubai had to turn around and land after 30 minutes because of a 'poisonous' smell in the plane. The smell was later confirmed to be the "liquid faecal excrement" of a passenger in the toilet, which was so bad it caused a safety hazard.
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