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TIL if you’re gay you have pretty strict restrictions on donating blood

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Ooj64 TIL about the 1904 Olympics marathon. Due to poor organisation, dehydration, food poisoning, wild dogs, drugs, and dust clouds out of the 32 original contestants, only 14 completed the race. A passing postman managed to come in 4th place
r5Do TIL The average prison meal is more nutritious than the average school lunch.
8aNvL TIL that Eunice Shriver Kennedy, JFKs older sister, founded an athletics camp in 1962 for children with intellectual disabilities. The camp would go on to evolve into the Special Olympics.
OGGVY TIL: During the Gallipoli campaign a famed war correspondent tasked Keith Murdoch with smuggling a letter back to Britain criticizing the campaign. Military press censors stopped Murdoch and confiscated the letter, Murdoch simply copied the letter from memory and added his name.
5VVoB TIL in USA and many other countries the minimum age to be president is 35 years old.