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TIL Tug of War was once an Olympic sport

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8a8Xa TIL all Golden Hamsters in captivity today descend from a single brother-sister pairing, found in Syria in 1930. The captured litter began with eleven, but the rest either escaped or ate each other.
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LQdXP TIL Nintendo released a Fire Emblem game for the SNES in 2000, long after the SNES became obsolete
9wbJX TIL that the pomelo, the largest citrus fruit, is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit.
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