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TIL six out of the eight competitors in the 100-meter final in the Seoul 1988 Olympics were found to have taken performance enhancing drugs

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0bN1 TIL infamous film director Uwe Boll once challenged critics to a boxing match. 4 critics showed up. He proceeded to punch the living shit out of every single one of them.
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g084 TIL that there are “lone planets” that roam endlessly through space without ever going into orbit. They are actually predicted to be more common than stars.
pYxKb TIL That The Top 50 Oldest Living People Are All Females. The oldest known living person is Tomiko Itooka of Japan, aged 116 years, 186 days.