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TIL that there was a Commonwealth Winter Games. Between 1958 and 1966 three editions took place in St. Moritz Switzerland.

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yJMJ TIL a man with an IQ 190 was on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and got the $16,000 question on the world’s highest capital city wrong. He later discovered the question was flawed and sued.
LkaAr TIL People used to believe that malaria was caused by bad air ("mal aria"). When Spanish Conquistadors founded a city in modern-day Argentina they unknowingly did so beyond the breeding range of mosquitoes, the disease's vector. It became the first malaria-free port, so they named it Buenos Aires.
grvV7 TIL Asteroids in the asteroid belt are not clustered so close together that a spaceship would have to maneuver through them. In fact, you'd have to go 960,000 kilometers from one asteroid before you found another one.
l7N6G TIL Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases has no known treatment and cure and is 100% fatal
rRDRd TIL that since the death of Freddie Mercury Queen bassist John Deacon has lived a reclusive life and has only played with the band three more times, the last in 1997. He lives with his wife of 45 years and has six children. According to the 2019 Sunday Times Rich List, he's worth £130 million.