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TIL Men's Gymnastics is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industy
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TIL: Petros, a wounded pelican adopted by the Greek island of Mykonos, warranted a court case for entrapment after he flew to another Island where locals wanted to keep him. Thanks to Petros there are now several pelicans living in Greece, though they aren't native.
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TIL there are 2 bands called “Impending Doom” one is an American Christian metal band and the other one a German Satanic metal band.
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TIL of the Kiplingcotes Derby, the world's oldest horse race (1519). The rules state it must be run every year or never be run again. The weather has threatened the race several times, causing a single rider to lead a horse around the track to prevent the race from being canceled permanently.
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TIL UFC fighter Meisha Tate was vacationing with her boyfriend and his parents when his mother suffered an asthma attack while snorkeling and almost drowned. Unable to perform CPR due to a closed throat, Meisha saved her by repeatedly taking puffs from an asthma inhaler and blowing it into her lungs
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TIL in 2001 Florida passed a law requiring single mothers to publish their full names and physical descriptions in a newspaper along with a list of the last 5 men they’d had sex with before they could put children up for adoption