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TIL Tahiti is the surfing location for the 2024 Paris Olympics

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D14Lp TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger made his first million dollars in real estate during the 70s, years before starring in his first movie.
gMg9y TIL Hedgehogs will rub a saliva-substance mixture (such as feces) on themselves in a process called Self Anointing. It's commonly thought this is to either absorb toxins for immunity or to deter predators through scent camouflage.
5VAgR TIL There is 97% overlap between swimmers and great white sharks in So. California beaches
8eM6X TIL of Daniel Sickles. He shot the son of Francis Scott Key in broad daylight for sleeping with his wife, and was the first person acquitted under the insanity defense. Later he was appointed a Union general, and lost his leg disobeying orders. He regularly claimed to be 6 years younger than he was.
4k416 TIL that the famous and often adapted 1932 novel "The Mutiny on the Bounty" is actually one book of 'The Bounty Trilogy,' 1933's 'Men Against the Sea' shows Bligh and others sailing for safety and 1934's 'Pitcairn's Island' is the story of the Mutineers' life in the South Pacific.