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TIL Olympics Used To Award Medals For Art

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e0b8g TIL Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man off the ledge in 1981 and stopped him from taking his own life
BgVyL TIL that Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy" was so popular that despite the original song "Ridin" winning a Grammy, people would go up to Chamillionaire and say that they heard his version of Weird Al's song
NXbrE TIL that Bassist Timothy B. Schmit coined the term "Parrotheads" to describe Jimmy Buffett's fans when he was a member of the Coral Reefer Band in the mid 1980s.
wLaRE TIL Lonnie Johnson, the man who created the “Super Soaker” (the world’s best selling toy) was awarded $72.9M in a Hasbro Settlement for unpaid royalties.
8nrL TIL in 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall of his home. Behind it, he discovered a mysterious room. The man continued digging … what he had discovered was the ancient Derinkuyu underground city, part of the Cappadocia region in central Anatolia, Turkey.