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TIL that when the Kazakh shooting team won gold in an event in Kuwait, the band played the theme from Borat at the medal ceremony by mistake

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pYwde TIL that 96.7% of people aged 16-24 in the Philippines play video games, which is the highest percentage of any country in the world
5VJR8 TIL In 1875, a whiskey warehouse in Dublin caught fire leading to the deaths of 13 people - only none of the deaths were from the fire itself. Rather, it was because the people responded by lapping up streams of undiluted whiskey running through the streets, killing them via alcohol poisoning.
Wyk8 TIL that in 2004 Volvo unveiled a concept car “for women, by women” without a hood because “their target audience doesn’t need to look under the hood.”
9nBm TIL during the early penicillin era, the drug was so scarce and so highly valued that it became common to collect the urine from patients being treated, so that the penicillin in the urine could be isolated and reused
Lkn90 TIL you only need to buy 14 calendars and you're set for life because there are only 14 possible calendar configurations (assuming you dont also follow the lunar calendar).