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TIL only eight different countries have ever won the World Cup

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0wLaj TIL if you fall into a hot spring at Yellowstone Park you could basically dissolve
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R7jd8 TIL that Jews were forbidden by the Rabbinate from walking under the Arch of Titus in Rome, which was built in 81 AD to commemorate the Roman victory in the first Jewish–Roman War in Judea. The ban was lifted in 1948 with the establishment of the state of Israel.
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5prB TIL of Larry Abshier, a US soldier in the Korean War who defected to North Korea because he was caught smoking pot. He lived with four other American defectors and was cast in several North Korean films where he became a celebrity.