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TIL In the month before the ancient Olympics no wars were permitted so that spectators could travel from across Greece unharmed,

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W7ed9 TIL of the town Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Québec. The the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.
rNBBw TIL of the intense fued between James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul", and Joe Tex. It got so bad Brown turned up to a club they were performing at and started a fight where 7 people were shot. Afterwards, a man gave "each one of the injured a hundred dollars apiece not to carry it no further".
9lmG TIL a man committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital 7 years ago for fabricating a story of large scale money-laundering at a major bank is to have his case reviewed after internal bank documents proving the validity of his claims have been leaked.
QxvE TIL that Willie Nelson will be receiving his 5th Degree Black Belt in the art of Gong Kwon Yu Sul, a modern Korean martial arts system.
VMnN4 TIL that Will Arnett had 16 years sober before relapsing in 2016 while filming the show Flaked, in which he ironically plays an alcoholic struggling with his addiction.