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TIL South Africa won the 1974 Tennis Davis Cup finals by default as the Indian team had refused to travel to South Africa in protest of the Apartheid regime

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X04mj TIL that 13% of American households own backyard chickens
PY8Qg TIL that DMT has been found to bind to the sigma-1 receptor, which plays a key role in protecting cells from dying when oxygen is low, making room for the argument that DMT may indeed be released in large quantities during death in a last-gasp attempt to keep our cells alive.
GDEg TIL on 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire.
QJoVE TIL That Reindeer Eyes Change Color by Season.
nW81Y TIL that the world's oldest known living organism is a colony of quaking aspen trees in Utah named Pando. Estimated to be around 80,000 years old, Pando covers an area of 106 acres and consists of over 40,000 individual trees, all connected by a single root system.