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TIL Tug of War was once an Olympic sport

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neJaW TIL that the Library of Congress is actively seeking volunteers to help transcribe 16,000 Pages of Suffragist Diaries, Letters, and Documents to create a searchable database where people can read original source documents.
nKmd TIL: Nairobi, Kenya has a thriving country music scene because Kenyans “can identify with the stories in the songs.” Country Music CDs make up 15% of all music sold.
QJ6Aa Today I Learned about Operation Legacy, a covert program by the British Foreign Office to destroy colonial documents in order to "avoid embarrassment". In 2011, victims of the British response to the Mau Mau Uprising helped unearth 20,000 of the surviving documents that were classified.
XEeWr TIL a nutrition professor went on a 10 week diet consisting of twinkies, doritos, and other junk food. He did so to prove that in weight loss, all that matters is a calorie deficit, not nutrition. He lost 27lbs.
kEOW TIL the Guadalupe Mountains aren’t really mountains but an ancient reef from about 265 million years ago when Texas was at the bottom of the sea