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TIL Tahiti is the surfing location for the 2024 Paris Olympics

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Rolj TIL that when Teddy Roosevelt was a young child, doctors prescribed him whiskey and cigars to relieve his severe asthma.
WERX TIL there’s an “endless wave” in the Amazon that can be surfed for ten kilometers or more.
YbXG TIL that all restaurants in Wisconsin were required by law to serve cheese and butter with every meal from 1935 to 1937.
PZjZ TIL that it is 10x cheaper for some farmers in India to use Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other colas as pesticides. The sugar in these drinks attracts ants, which feed on the larvae of insects.
epEBL TIL that Switzerland suffered casualties in WW2, despite being neutral. The US air force accidentally bombed a number of Swiss towns, thinking they were in Germany, and several aerial incidents took place against both Allied and Axis planes due to violating Swiss airspace.