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TIL The Olympics don't actually give any official ranking by country, merely a gold medal "ordering"

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X0eoX TIL that in 1989, scientists at IBM succeeded in arranging 35 individual xenon atoms on a substrate of chilled crystal of nickel to spell out the initials "IBM". It was the first time atoms had been precisely positioned on a flat surface.
XEbaP TIL Ken Eto (衛藤 健 Etō Ken; October 19, 1919 – January 23, 2004), also known as Tokyo Joe, was a Japanese-American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually an FBI informant. He survived a botched assassination, where he was shot three times in the head.
kJP8E TIL that it was practically illegal to own gold in the US from 1933 to 1974. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order to force all citizens to turn in almost all gold for about $20 per ounce, then declared the value of $20 in gold to be worth $35 in paper currency - creating a massive inflation.
rRjjd TIL: The Shipwreck of the Andrea Doria, has earned it the nickname of "The Everest of Diving" due it's depth of 240 ft and the over a dozen divers who lost their life attempting it .
xR5o TIL 4200 year old egyptian texts includes advice such as Shut your pie hole, Eat your vegetables, Don’t have sex with lady-boys, Taking your wife to a restaurant makes her happy, and Actions speak louder than words