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TIL The nation of Canada is undefeated in the world of professional sumo wrestling. There has been precisely one, John Tenta, who retired having never lost a bout.

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LQdom TIL "Nuclear Gandhi", a glitch in the video game Civilization which makes the typically peaceful leader Gandhi aggressively use nuclear weapons, is a myth. There's no evidence such a glitch exists in the game, and several of the game's creators have stated that it's impossible for it to happen.
OAWe TIL Humans are capable of using the same principles of echolocation that bats, dolphins, and whales use to navigate their surrounds; One of the better-known demonstrators of this phenomenon is Daniel Kish, a man who can ride a bicycle and hike in the wilderness despite having no eyes at all
GAemg TIL that the last words of Apache leader and prisoner of war Geronimo were: "I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."
aVAL TIL that there is an ethnic group called the “asian pygmies” that are intentionally going extinct to prevent the passing of their many birth defects.
awLY9 TIL that squirrels can lower their terminal velocity and turn their bodies midair, so they can survive super high falls