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TIL that Spain won basketball gold at the 2000 Paralympics but most of the team wasn't disabled. The coach asked the team to slow their scoring because they were playing too well. When journalists became suspicious, they were encouraged to grow beards and wear hats so as not to be recognisable.

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7rdmX TIL we all have blind spots in our vision. Cover your left eye in this vision test to "see it" yourself.
6EJKW TIL that the lookout who first spotted the iceberg that sank the Titanic survived the sinking and went on to serve in the merchant navy in WWI and WWII. Shortly after Christmas in 1964, at the age of 77, his wife died, he was evicted from his house and he hanged himself.
oRYpr TIL that the rarest mineral on Earth is kyawthuite, with only one known specimen found in Myanmar.
8aggG TIL that in 2017 during the Me Too movement, the late Anthony Bourdain expressed remorse that his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential "celebrated or prolonged a culture that allowed the kind of grotesque behaviors we're hearing about all too frequently"
R5MQQ TIL of John Coffey a fireman, who deserted the Titanic at his hometown of Queenstown Ireland, the last stop before it headed across the Atlantic to New York.