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TIL that Colorado has 697 sides and is really not a rectangle

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GrOJ TIL the irish Peter O'Connor at the flag-raising ceremony in the 1906 olympics, in protest at the flying of the Union Flag for his second place, scaled a flagpole in the middle of the field and waved the Irish flag, while the pole was guarded by Irish and American athletes and supporters.
4XWVa TIL in countries such as Lebanon and Syria, marriage between Druze and non-Druze is banned and frowned upon, and a Lebanese man who married a Druze woman was kidnapped by her family, who beat him up, pulled out some of his teeth and cut off his dick.
mwDY TIL more board games are sold per capita in Germany than anywhere else. The country’s newspapers review board games alongside movies and books, and the annual board game convention draws more than 150,000 fans. Its “Spiel des Jahres” annual game award is considered the industry’s highest award.
49Qw TIL that in 1938, a Kindergarten teacher who witnessed a burglary was jailed for five days because she wore a pair of slacks into court the day she was called to testify.
awaxM TIL a man built the world's largest treehouse after claiming God told him to do so. It was 97 feet tall. It took 12 years to build and burned down in 15 minutes in 2019.