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TIL about the sport of "Tank Biathlon", a sport promoted by Russia where tank crews compete on a course like biathletes in the Olympics.

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BgwJr TIL that in Romania in 1999, a man and a woman died of carbon monoxide poisoning while having sex in a car parked in a garage with the engine running and won the 1999 Darwin Award.
jjMv TIL the best paid sportsman of all-time was the Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. Before retiring in 146 AD, Diocles had won 1,462 races, resulting in winning over 35,863,120 sesterces in prize-money. By today’s standards, that last figure would cash out to about $15 billion.
YpMKv TIL O.J. Simpson's father was a drag queen who died of AIDS in 1986.
e0LgE TIL the Amazon river was named by Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana. After skirmishes with a native tribe whose women fought alongside the men, Orellana derived the name from the Amazons described in Greek myth.
jNOnN TIL about a Lithuanian artist who designed a roller coaster whose purpose is to kill people through euphoria obtained by g-forces and appropriately called it "Euthanasia coaster." He got this idea while working at an amusement park.