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TIL after two and a half hours of competing in the olympic high jump two athletes decided to share gold

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GD14 TIL the guy who created the backstreet boys and Nsync is serving 25 years in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme
VMnb8 TIL that cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world
69NNJ TIL of the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup in Ireland, where a horse was trained for an obscure race, was given starting odds of 20-1, the trainer then had a friend block the only phonebox near the racecourse pretending to talk to a dying aunt, so the bookmakers couldn't communicate. He made €1.7(afi)
xVQ40 TIL: In the last 100 years, more people have been killed by a dog in each single year than the total killed by sharks for all 100 years combined.
yypM TIL that the German word for “jack of all trades” (Eierlegende-wollmilchsau) literally means egg-laying-wool-milk-pig thereby describing the perfect animal that provides wool, milk and, finally, bacon.