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TIL Olympics Used To Award Medals For Art

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6xWZ TIL that due to gravitational time dilation, the Earth’s core is 2.5 years younger than the surface.
woxmY TIL of the Mani pulite, a 1990s Italian corruption scandal that implicated over half the parliament and members of over 400 city and town councils.
88n8 TIL after Trent Reznor found out his CD was $30 in Australia, he said “Steal it. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing. Because one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they’re ripping people off and that’s not right.”
Le9d TIL that drivers over 85 have almost twice as many fatalities per mile travelled as teenagers in the US.
agjJ TIL the small diamond pattern etched into flashlights, tool handles, barbells, etc. is called “knurling”