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TIL that jousting is the official state sport of Maryland

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EgZpX TIL that chimney sweeping in Germany is protected by a "frankly medieval" guild system. The article also talks about the sweeps' involvement in the country's dark past, the legal requirement to let sweeps in and how freelance competition provoked legal backlash (at time of publication)
VM7np TIL People living in Manila's slums survive on chicken scraps collected from garbage
78pkr TIL The star Betelgeuse has been recorded since Chinese antiquity, with notes of the star then being yellow, by the time of Ptolemy it was orange, and now red. The star is the tenth brightest in the sky and expected to go supernova in the next 100,000 years.
x6JMk TIL that the air in Europe is more radioactive. It's a health hazard and it's the second cause of lung cancer
W79Qo TIL (and don't ask me how I know) that Justin Timberlake has a part of his set that devours panties upon his request.