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TIL Paul the Octopus correctly selected eight out of eight winning teams for football matches, including Spain's win over Holland in 2010.

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9wgRM TIL "artery" means "windpipe" as ancient anatomists found arteries empty in corpses and believed they carried vital spirits or air, with arterial bleeding explained by blood replacing escaping air from nearby vessels.
RWWa TIL that Romania shipped 93.4 TONES of gold to Rusia in 1916 so that Russia would safe keep the Romanian Treasure in the Kremlin until the end of the war. And, as of 2014, they gave back only 33 kg of it.
9wMM7 TIL that the famed mystery author Agatha Christie was an avid surfer, and first learned the sport in 1922. She is thought to be the first western woman to stand up on a surfboard.
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