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TIL guys getting lubed up with olive oil and wrestling in Turkey is the world’s oldest continuous sanctioned sporting competition.

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woNp1 TIL that the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (rebuilt using the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fought to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862, the first battle between two ironclad warships during the American Civil War.
VBRG4 TIL Boeing used depleted uranium plates as counterweights in its 747 airplanes and some helicopters. While relatively safe, some of these plates have been lost. They stopped using it completely in 1981.
woK58 TIL the phrase “you can’t handle the truth” was created/ improvised by Jack Nicholson. The movie's original screenplay boasted the line "You already have the truth," which Nicholson trimmed to "You can't handle the truth."
XEQdP TIL that brown doesn't exist as a colour and brown light is physically impossible.