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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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loljr TIL Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with “two gunshot wounds to the head.” His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.
kmod TIL Genghis Khan slaughtered the inhabitants of an entire city because they killed his son-in-law. Khan’s grieving daughter requested that all citizens be decapitated to ensure they were dead and that pyramids be built from their skulls…which took 10 days.
gMVw4 TIL that many trains have a "sanding system" that allows sand to be strewn onto the tracks in front of the wheels to increase traction during adverse weather.
DeMp TIL a school in Spain offers professional courses in prostitution, including positions, history, and laws concerning the trade.
KYdyB TIL that on June 29, 1841 William and John Driscoll were executed by a firing squad comprised of 111 "Regulators". The two men were part of a group of loose-knit outlaw gangs known as the Banditti of the Prairie which terrorize Northern Illinois during the early to mid-19th century.