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TIL 66–year old 'Steel Grandpa' Gustaf Håkansson Pirated Sweden’s Toughest Bike Race and won by a day, having tea with the King when the runner up finished

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jnWp TIL that Russia has secret cities; you can only gain access through security checkpoints, and they only show up on classified maps. Foreigners are strictly forbidden.
b9eGj TIL that a group of bears is called a "sleuth of bears". Also: a sounder of boars, clowder of cats, mob of cattle, coalition of cheetahs, bask of crocodiles, pod of dolphins, bed of eels, cast of falcons, business of flies, band of gorillas, boil of hawks, kindle of kittens, barrel of monkeys
b8Lp TIL that in 2004 the Republic of Georgia fired 30,000 police officers (almost the entire traffic police force) due to corruption and built glass police stations to encourage an image of transparency.Since then crime in Georgia has dropped and the public confidence in the police has risen drastically
ANWBw TIL Grumman, the aerospace and defense corporation, also makes the ubiquitous United States Postal Service Truck
kBxm TIL Nelson Mandela was a heavyweight boxer in his younger years. He continued to train while he was in prison.