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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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vK8 TIL that during the Ancient Olympic Games, a truce was observed. During this time, armies could not enter Olympia, wars were suspended and legal disputes were forbidden.
9YOa7 TIL that "thalassophobia" is an intense and persistent fear of the sea and can include fear of being in deep bodies of water, fear of the vast emptiness of the sea, and fear of distance from land.
VMAOD TIL Pitcairn Islands, one of the least populated and hardest to reach regions in the world, is home to some of the world's best bees. Producing some of the best honey in the world, Pitcairn's bees are also disease-free and docile towards beekeepers.
BgVrb TIL that the French stole the croissant from the Austrians.
e07Ak TIL while Richard Nixon was on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1959, high levels of radiation were detected the room he was staying in. Secret Service purposely argued about the radiation and how to handle it in an area they knew the Soviets had bugged. Three hours later, the radiation disappeared.