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TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to earn a brown belt in judo.

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ErD0 TIL that over the last 35 years, a portion of the scientific community involved in researching domestic violence has been actively concealing and misrepresenting the evidence for “Gender Symmetry”: the fact that women and men perpetrate partner violence at comparable rates [PDF]
wonnP TIL Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime
78oQp TIL that in Ninilchik, Alaska, there is a still spoken isolated dialect of Russian that hasn't evolved since +150 years ago.
D0bP TIL In all of Ohio in 1895, there were only two cars on the road, they crashed into each other.
Qwg6 TIL there are over 200 ancient underground cities in Turkey, some are big enough to hold 20,000 people. They have churches, ventilation shafts, and many are connected by tunnels.