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TIL Tahiti is the surfing location for the 2024 Paris Olympics

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J1QQv TIL The famous painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" was discovered after the artist death, painted directly on his dining room wall. The depiction of Saturn is only presumed as the painting had no title.
OoW0a TIL there's a monkey masturbating in one of the Harry Potter movies
aw58M TIL the first Soviet citizen to visit the White House was a female WWII sniper with 309 confirmed kills, one of which was a sniper she dueled for 3 days.
P6MG TIL Military units break step when marching over bridges to avoid causing a resonate wave that could collapse the structure.
16l8P TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable foundation to fund cancer research and children’s hospitals. In 2009, he told Ladies Home Journal: "I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."