/r/todayilearned
TIL that insects are consumed as food in 80% of the world's nations, by people in roughly 3000 еthnic groups.
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TIL "French Drains" are so named for their inventor - American Henry French - and has nothing to do with France.
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TIL that after the creation of the anti-doping regulations in the Olympic games the first person disqualified had taken a few beers before the pistol shooting event.
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TIL that insects are consumed as food in 80% of the world's nations, by people in roughly 3000 ethnic groups.
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TIL of a Lithopedion, a calcified stone foetus that is a very rare complication of an also rare abdominal pregnancy
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TIL that when filming the movie Superman Returns, someone stole some walkie-talkies from the set and proceeded to yell 'action' and 'cut' at random times to mess up various scenes
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A 15 year old gymnast Adriana Oliva injured her vertebrae in London 2012 Olympics, volunteered in 2016 Rio, picked up Trap shooting, came 26th in Tokyo 2021. She later went on to become the first woman from Guatemala to win Olympic medal in Paris 2024 and clinched gold in trap shooting.
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