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TIL that there are Independent Olympic Athletes who don’t represent any specific country in Olympic competition.

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XEpbX TIL of Dashrath Manjhi, an Indian man who manually carved a path 110 m long, 9.1 m wide and 7.6 m deep through a hill using only a hammer and chisel over the course of 22 years, shortening travel from his village, Gehlaur, to the town of Gaya from 55km to 15km.
ON7R TIL there are only 5 countries were suicide rate for women is higher than men and they are China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and Indonesia
Z8Djp TIL a man who regularly said that God sends natural disasters to punish gay people ended up having his home destroyed in a natural disaster
b905E TIL that fugu (pufferfish) isn't inherently poisonous but instead picks up its tetrodotoxin from bacteria. There are now fugu that are grown isolated from these bacteria and are therefore non-poisonous
EZkP TIL there’s a Forbes ranking for the 15 richest FICTIONAL characters - and at #1, it’s Smaug the dragon.