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TIL Curling is believed to be one of the world’s oldest team sports.

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Y78eZ TIL that most of the bodies of climbers that have perished on Mount Everest remain where they died. In fact, climbers now use some of these bodies as landmarks during their climb.
Egr6p TIL there is a registry for clowns (no not that one). Unique clown face designs are registered - on an egg.
EwEp TIL that Russia trained dolphins how to kill people with harpoons and then sold them to Iran after running out of dolphin food
gWw8 TIL that the word ‘Poecilonym’ is the synonym to the word 'synonym’.
jNgkE TIL that Ferrari's famous "prancing horse" logo was coined because one of Enzo Ferrari's best friends gave him a necklace with a prancing horse just before taking off and then getting shot down in a WWI dogfight over the Isonzo Front