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TIL that Qatar is 25% female.
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TIL Cap Royce Williams, 99-yrs-old, single-handedly fought 7 Soviet MIGs during the Korean War—downing at least 4. The US was not officially at war with the USSR so his accomplishment was kept secret until Soviet Archives revealed it. Royce was debriefed by Eisenhower but didn’t even tell his wife.
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TIL Steven Bradbury, a speedskater and Australia’s first gold medalist in the Salt Lake Winter Olympics, won his medal by purposely going slower than the other 4 skaters and hoping that one or more of them would crash to secure at least a bronze. All four crashed near the finish line.
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TIL that in the Middle Ages it was believed that lion cubs were born dead and their father resurrected them with his breath after three days.
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TIL: Those neck things are called gaiters?!
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TIL that the two sides in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire to watch Pelé when he and his team came to visit Nigeria in 1967.