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TIL that at the 2012 Olympics, the North Korean women's football team left the pitch in protest before their match with Colombia after their players appear on screens with South Korea's flag

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16v4P TIL that Leonardo da Vinci never said "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return." John Secondari, an American TV writer, came up with it for a TV episode about da Vinci in 1965.
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