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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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5Vdmn TIL about Grape the Humboldt penguin from the Tobu Zoo in Japan, who fell in love with a cutout of an anime character.
pYYVZ TIL about “The Jalen Generation”. 90’s and 2000’s NBA star Jalen Rose got his name when his mom combined James and Leonard together. There were no other Jalens at the time, but because of Rose’s popularity currently over 30 athletes with versions of the name Jalen are playing in the NBA and NFL.
d87 Today I learned cicadas have evolved 13 and 17 year breeding cycles, because prime integers rarely sync with other integers making it rare that they will breed in sync with predators.
6EV78 TIL the owner of a DC bar, Kamal Jahanbein, shuts his business down for one month each year to go build schools in impoverished villages, and has been doing it since 1994.
QJk6M TIL that there is a statue of Jason Vorhees chained under the Crystal Lake located in Cosby, Minnesota