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TIL during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, two African American sprinters beat the Nazis in the 200 meter dash: Jesse Owens and Mack Robinson- the older brother of baseball legend Jackie Robinson

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LkgvV TIL that The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel was originally a flop, which led to the breakup of the duo. A year later a Columbia record producer remixed electric instruments and drums and rereleased the song. It became a huge hit worldwide and gave the duo reason to reunite.
d80Vj TIL in 1987 a robbery suspect fled, half naked, into a showing of RoboCop in order to escape police. He became so engrossed in the movie he failed to notice police had evacuated the theater. It wasn’t until the the lights were turned on that the stunned man was taken into custody.
ANxWw TIL Rome was sacked by the Gauls in 390 BC, before it had become a major power. The defeat influenced the Romans to move away from the Greek fixed phalanx form of fighting toward the use of maniples, or small maneuverable groups of soldiers that could adapt more quickly without being pinned down
ANMw4 TIL about Arctic Hysteria (also known as Piblokto), a culture-bound syndrome that mostly affects the female Inuit population. Symptoms include tearing off clothes, running naked through the snow, screaming, throwing things, and performing other wild behaviors.
yQJjl TIL about Bostrom's trilemma. If humans don't kill themselves off and reach the point of being able to simulate human brains, and don't develop universally believed ethics not to, then, statistically speaking, there is a higher chance you are a computer simulation than not.