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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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1PjO TIL in 2010 the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was deployed to Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake, and provided the island with 200,000 gallons a day of fresh drinking water from its desalination plants.
Oo414 TIL the UK has its very own coral reef - off the the coast of Cornwall is an 8000 year old cold water coral reef.
xoyk TIL a Swedish man built a homemade nuclear reactor and had a meltdown on the kitchen stove
XnWk TIL the man who invented Novocain, an anesthetic commonly used by dentists, toured dental schools telling them not to use it in dentistry.
EVKd TIL Egypt sued the Jews for the property they “borrowed” before the exodus in the court of Alexander the great the jews countersued for 400+ years of unpaid wages for 600,000 men and the egyptians promptly dropped the case