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TIL that almost all of the stadiums used in the Beijing Olympics in 2008 are huge concrete wastelands at the moment

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EgOgx TIL that in Japan, there is an annual Penis Festival called "Kanamara Matsuri"
e7bb TIL, The nerd who kissed Bar Rafaeli on the Go Daddy commercial is known as Jesse Heiman, the worlds greatest extra, and he was in Old School, Transformers and Van Wilder.
M7Ab7 TIL about the Kadaknath chicken breed in India. Because of melanin pigmentation, the entire chicken is black or grey-black in colour, including plumage, legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones, blood and organs
GAeR5 TIL after nearly twenty years in TV & film, Star Wars was John Williams first symphonic score, ushering a new age of symphonic film scoring for films and a new popular market for film scores sold separately on media
M7eg0 TIL there was a french guy named Tarrare who was known for having a insatiable hunger, so much so that he would eat live cats, fight dogs over hospital trash, and even be able to eat his own weight worth of food. He also was able to swallow whole snakes and eels without chewing.