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TIL that in preparation for the World Cup in Brazil there were over 250,000 citizens involuntarily removed from there homes for construction and other World Cup accommodation purposes.

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LQAkV TIL that the inventor of the motorcycle died while riding his own motorcycle design at the age of 72. A newspaper headline said that Sylvester Roper "Died in the Saddle".
PYWML TIL that Red lipstick didn't always mean glamour
xVRM0 TIL WebCrawler launched in 1994 and is the oldest surviving search engine on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search.
l4l1 TIL pit stains come from the aluminum in antipersperant plus your sweat reacting to touching cotton, and is avoidable with aluminum-free antiperspirant
j6BBQ TIL that in the Vietnam War, future Nebraska governor Bob Kerrey was complicit in a raid in which troops under his command killed 21 unarmed civilians, mostly children. He then falsely reported them as guerrillas. According to an American and Vietnamese witness, Kerrey had them shot in cold blood.