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TIL in Sydney there is an annual duck fashion show

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d8gm9 TIL about the sport of "Tank Biathlon", a sport promoted by Russia where tank crews compete on a course like biathletes in the Olympics.
XEKR6 TIL Mel Brooks offered the role of Waco Kid (Gene Wilder's character) in Blazing Saddles to John Wayne.
v19px TIL that after Batman got his junior companion Robin in 1940, its comic book sales nearly doubled, which started a rush of "kid companions" in other comic book series
R5vjl TIL Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) and Keith Moon both died in the same bedroom, both at the age of 32.
7Eeb TIL that J002E3, originally thought to be an asteroid orbiting the Earth, is actually part of the Apollo 12 mission that returned to Earth orbit after 31 years of orbiting the Sun