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xVLG7 TIL That There Is A Man In Spain, Building A Cathedral By Hand Since 1961
6gRJ TIL the Slovakian women’s hockey team qualified for the 2010 Olympics by beating Bulgaria 82-0, and then lost to team Canada in Vancouver 18-0
LBQv TIL that in Alabama, people say “TGFM”, Thank God for Mississippi. It is a reference to the fact that, although Alabama has many problems, it’s neighboring state is worse off.
RjP6 TIL of the assassin Balthasar Gérard and his brutal execution, involving having his right hand burned off with a red-hot iron, his flesh torn from his bones with pincers, quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his chest and flung into his face, and finally his head chopped off.
X0e4X TIL that Capcom made a video game in about 1990 titled "The California Raisins: The Grape Escape", which went unreleased, despite being largely finished, due to the titular characters losing popularity, after there was a decline in raisin sales