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TIL the real Jamaican Bobsleigh team were actually Soldiers and not sprinters.

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AD0dd TIL that Left-brain vs. Right-brain dominance is a myth. Lateralization is unique in every individual and researchers can not find any evidence that one side of the brain or another works by itself for functions of our personalities.
Z8pjo TIL that Keith Caputo, lead singer of hardcore band Life Of Agony is now a woman
gM8AX TIL: African Pygmy tribes were essentially atheistic and were observed to have no cults, no rites, no totems, no deities, and no spirits. Dead were buried without ceremonies or gifts and received no further attention. They even appeared to lack simple superstitions, according to travelers' reports
R7bW1 TIL that a drunk hunter singlehandedly caused a 285,000 gallon oil spill by shooting the Trans-Alaska Pipeline with a .338-caliber rifle
Br4Mx TIL: The hyphenating of an American’s ethnicity or origin was originally a nationalistic and disparaging epithet.