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TIL that a woman found her lost engagement ring, wrapped around a carrot, after 16 years.

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6E15l TIL the first year basketball was played in the Olympics was during the 1936 Berlin games and was played outdoors on a dirt/clay court designed for tennis. During the gold medal game played between USA and Canada it rained 2" and both teams only managed to score 8 points combined in the 2nd half.
oRnkY TIL that the first Tay Bridge collapsed in a winter gale in December 1879, just nineteen months after opening, plunging a passenger train into the Firth of Tay and killing all 75 people on board
epVp6 TIL The Rollin' music video by Limp Bizkit was filmed on the World Trade Center and features Ben Stiller
69p7 TIL that a Uranium deposit in Africa naturally developed criticality and produced fission power for hundreds of thousands of years. It was a “natural nuclear reactor”.
Lkvrd TIL about Charles "Zimmy" Zibelman the Human fish, who swam for between New York and Albany for 148 hours straight. And he didn't have legs.