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TIL that there’s a dragon in some versions of the Bible

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EOOX TIL: China has a National Pole Dancing Team.
kOW7 TIL there was a reality show in 2004 that had contestants stay awake for a week, and were punished if they closed their eyes for more than 10 seconds.
kjjm TIL in 2012 Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki presented a proof for the “abc conjucture” - one of the most important, unsolved problems in math. However the proof is so difficult and abstract, that not even his peers get the gist of it. To this day it is still unconfirmed.
xjb1 TIL Blur bassist Alex James drank so much champagne during his bands ‘90s heyday that he was solely responsible for 1% of all champagne imported into the UK.
WkPZY TIL in Russia, the name "Plyushkin" is applied to people who collect and amass various useless things. The word comes from fictional character Stepan Plyushkin who orders one of his serfs to find a cake that a visitor brought several years ago, scrape off the mold, and bring it to them.