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TIL of all youth sports, baseball has the highest fatality rate

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4Xl76 TIL Steven Bradbury won an Olympic Gold Medal in speed skating because all the other competitors fell over
grXyL TIL Japan successfully floated balloon Bombs into the US during WW2, killing 6 people in Oregon "the war's only fatalities in the continental U.S". But, the US Government did such an effective job of covering it up, Japan thought the attack was a failure.
bNRN TIL that at least about 100 North Korean defectors to South Korea, unable to cope with the new society, isolation, and lack of job prospects, have went back to North Korea.
kNNW TIL that Marcionites, an early Christian sect, believed that the god of the Old Testament was a separate entity from the god of the NT, and that the physical world was his evil creation.
l7nbB TIL that there are more brown bears (around four times) on the Japanese island of Hokkaido than in all of the contiguous United States