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TIL There are up to 500,000 people of Palestinian descent in Chile

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nW7r TIL 61 yo Cliff Young ran an ultramarathon and broke the record by two days. He had no formal training, ran with no sleep, and beat sponsored, young athletes. He remarked that the race “wasn’t easy.”
b9gRa TIL the Russians founded their own Space Forces in 1992. The branch was united with the Russian Air Force in 2015, because the division was seen as "absolutely obsolete".
dDxjd TIL that the Seine, Rhine, Thames, Elbe, Meuse, Amstel and Sheldt Rivers were all tributaries of a now lost mega river called the Channel River that flowed through the now sunken Doggerland to the Bay of Biscay, eighteen thousand years ago.
BrGoy TIL the Soviet Union won 55 gold medals on its final appearance at the Olympics in 1988, and no country has won more than 50 golds in a single Olympics since then to the present
V6G0 TIL that 3 men forced their way into a 67-year-old man’s home with the intention of raping his granddaughter and stealing the money in his safe. He agreed to open the safe and take out the cash, but instead of taking out the money, he took out a gun and shot all of them.