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TIL that the largest far-right ultra-nationalist organization in Germany is the Turkish Grey Wolves.

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OoBl7 TIL a man was told to take off his white shoes before entering a Komodo Dragon enclosure so that they weren’t mistaken for mice. The Dragon bit the shoeless man’s foot and the man lost a toe
epE6k TIL the ending of "Fever Pitch" had to be rewritten, with additional filming, when the Red Sox defeated the Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series. The writers had originally assumed the Red Sox would lose.
xVrNo Today I learned that allergic rhinitis can cause dark bags under the eyes, called "allergic shiners".
QJJQE TIL about Misha Osipov, the chessplayer who challenged Karpov when he was 3 years old and defeated the grandmaster Averbakh at age 4
WkM4o TIL that during a Rolling Stones concert, four people were killed but the overall population of the concert did not change since four babies were born at the concert as well.