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TIL unlike in Cool Runnings, the Olympic bobsledding community welcomed the first Jamaican team; and offered them guidance and spare sleds. They went on to crash in the Qualifying Round.

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Me1ba TIL about Kiyomizu-dera, a temple where people used to jump off its 43ft stage due to a belief that those who survived the fall would have their wish granted. Of the 234 jumps recorded during the Edo period, 85.4% survived.
ANPVl TIL for movie The Reader (2008), the filming of the movie had to be delayed for 2 years so that actor David Kross had turned 18 in order to shoot sex scenes with Kate Winslet.
P11vJ TIL that the mistletoe plant, a parasite, is the only multicellular organism that does not have a functioning electron transport chain, i.e. it cannot create useful energy for itself
e0ONn TIL that the three-toed skink can both lays eggs and gives birth to live young.
pYayO TIL that the longest recorded distance a paper airplane has flown is over 226 feet, achieved by a Japanese engineer in 2012