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TIL that a gold medal won from the Olympics is worth about $494, a silver medal worth $260, and the bronze medal is worth $3.

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pYWRp TIL of James Reeb, a Universal Unitarian minister and Civil Rights activist who was murdered by segregationists while heading to the Selma to Montgomery marches. Despite three men being tried, they were acquitted by an all-white jury, and his murder remains officially unsolved.
wLDR7 TIL US hospitals originally banned the newly discovered techniques of cleaning surgical tools to prevent infections
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