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TIL that jousting is the official state sport of Maryland
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TIL the US was ready to drop a third nuclear bomb on Japan by August 19, 1945. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945.
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TIL a 1984 Einstürzende Neubauten performance was stopped after 21 minutes as the band was attempting to drill a hole in the stage so they could leave the venue through the floor
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TIL The highest survivable dose of caffeine on record is a full 100 g, set by a 39-year-old female that attempted suicide by ingesting ~500 200mg caffeine tablets dissolved in water.
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TIL that American mathematician Frank Nelson Cole spent "three years of Sundays" factoring 147,573,952,589,676,412,927.
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TIL that only 20 different surnames comprise half the population of China, 3 surnames comprise half the population of Korea, and 3 belong to 60% of the Vietnamese.