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TIL May 25 is Towel Day, A Celebration of Douglas Adams

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KnKR TIL That the Harvard debate team lost to a team of inmates serving time for manslaughter.
D7vp TIL A million-dollar wound or Blighty wound is military slang referring to a type of wound received in combat which is serious enough to get the person sent away from the fighting, but is not fatal, nor will it leave the person permanently crippled.
N7YE8 TIL that Jimi Heselden, the owner the Segway Company died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his home in Yorkshire, England.
xV8bk TIL The International Chopin Piano Competition has been held every five years since 1955. It is one of the few competitions devoted entirely to the works of a single composer
Y7ZLB TIL that just one white European has ever run a 100m race in under 10 seconds.