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TIL Bill and Melinda Gates made a site that provides free textbooks for college students 100% legally

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9wMrp TIL: In 1980, British athletes attended the Moscow Olympics against the wishes of Margaret Thatcher. Sebastian Coe’s own parents were approached by the government in the shape of Douglas Hurd to put pressure on their son not to compete. As Coe himself recalled, they told him politely to get stuffed.
v1eJB TIL that while Japan is not legally allowed to have a military, they circumvent this rule by maintaining the world's most militarized "police force", complete with destroyers and fighter aircraft
Pg9e TIL meth users are recycling the chemicals from their urine or just consuming it to get high.
X0pwr TIL: In 2020, an explosion at a chemical facility in Spain killed 3 people, however, one of them, Sergio Millán was 2 kilometers away and not a worker, when he was struck by a steel plate from the explosion weighing 800kg with a security camera catching the plate traveling 2km to reach him.
MGY0 TIL that the Chinese explorer Zhang He died from an arrow in the knee.