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TIL Becky Hammon became a Russian citizen purely to play basketball in the 2008 Olympics after she was cut from the USA Basketball team. The result? Tripling her salary as a professional and a bronze medal.

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9wMj7 TIL The Dominican Republic launched a genocide of Haitians living on the two country's frontiers. They identified Haitians from their own populace by making suspects pronounce "parsley," or "perejil" in Spanish. If they could not do this, they were deemed Haitian and murdered.
R7Zm8 TIL The Noid was discontinued after Kenneth Lamar Noid, believing the mascot to be an imitation of him, held two Domino's employees hostage in Chamblee,Georgia. The employees escaped while Noid ate a pizza he had ordered. Noid was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and commited suicide
VMKD TIL that in Islamic Art, prophets look like they are on fire - flames are used instead of the ring halos in Western art.
0woON TIL a sexually mature male duck is called a drake
VgX8 TIL of the Assassin Bug, a bug that wears its victims bodies as armor.