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TIL that only five countries have participated in every Summer Olympic Games – Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece & Switzerland

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gMM4W And what, if anything, could’ve prevented it?
r9M0 TIL that one of the scholars who translated the Dead Sea Scrolls was convinced that Christianity was based on an ancient psychedelic mushroom and fertility cult.
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w9Eo TIL Humans have the ability to see ultraviolet (UV) light, but it is filtered by the eye’s lens. People who have surgery to remove the lens (typically because of cataracts) can see UV light.
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