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TIL an intersex athlete representing Poland won the 100 meter dash gold medal in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles and her “sexually ambiguous genitalia” (due to a chromosomal disorder known as mosaicism) was not discovered until the autopsy following her 1980 murder in Cleveland.

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