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TIL There is an international zipline between Spain and Portugal.

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Zpvga TIL that comedian Jon Stewart is a passionate advocate for 9/11 first responders and helped get the James Zadroga Act passed, which provides affected first responders with 75 years of health coverage and five years of compensation. He also fought for it's reauthorization in 2015 and 2019.
e4e5 TIL sometimes over 90,000 condoms are used during the olympic games by athletes.
gMX57 TIL That Snoop Dogg tried to rent out the entire country of Lichenstein for a music video, but was rejected
VMZEG TIL the term "Caucasian" was first used for skull traits, not skin color. Caucasian populations were thus not exclusively "white," but ranged in complexion from white-skinned to dark brown.
0yYL TIL in 1975 a county clerk in Colorado issued a same-sex marriage license, finding no law that forbade it. When a man came to her office to marry his horse in protest, she determined the 8-year-old horse was too young to get married without parental consent and refused the license.