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TIL that the Olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis to promote the Third Reich at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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v1LDj TIL that the US is in eternal battle with a flesh eating fly called the Screw Worm. Basically a maggot that burrow into live flesh, head first. There's a worm screw border guard at Panama, having mostly irradicating them in North America. Last US case in 2016. Yes, they will lay their eggs in you.
6j0Y TIL in 2011 a bishop watched a television interview with Boy George, and discovered that an 18th century stolen Cypriot icon was hanging in the singer’s living room. Boy George immediately agreed to return the artefact and received a gift in return.
AGOo TIL people who stay abstinent have a higher chance to die young than heavy drinkers
AL7o TIL there are 5 enormous cylindrical shafts underneath of Tokyo, Japan which fill with water in case of a flood so it does not to destroy the city.
PDWZ TIL North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights, stolen by a Union soldier in 1865, was recovered by an FBI sting operation in 2003