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TIL: WWF Wrestler Kurt Angle is an Olympic Gold Medalist

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Rb4Q TIL that for $700, girls can get their hymen rebuilt to fake virginity when getting married in China.
b6MZZ TIL that the Mobro 4000 was a garbage barge that departed New York with 3,000 tons of trash in 1987. It gained national headlines as it traveled the coast looking for a place to unload after being rejected by six states and three countries. It finally unloaded five months later… in Brooklyn.
6WxJ TIL in Denmark in WWII, border guards would screen homecoming Danes by making them say the name of a dessert: rødgrød med fløde. Due to its difficulty in pronunciation, German infiltrators could not pass the test.
ee55 TIL the current President of Pakistan was born in India, while India’s prime minister was born in Pakistan.
PY6Rg TIL: Plymouth, Montserrat the world's only ghost capital of a political territory. The town was abandoned in 1997 after continuous volcanic activity, but it still recognized as the island's capital.