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TIL that the top 8 participants in Olympic events go home with an Olympic Diploma

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e0X0n TIL of John, a teen who was the first person in the UK charged with inciting his own murder. He found his real-life friend Mark in a chatroom and convinced Mark to kill him (John) via a web of fictional characters. Mark stabbed John, convinced the CIA had ordered him to.
QNrKM TIL After the battle of Sedan, over 100,000 French soldiers were captured, including Emperor Napoleon III himself, but he headed to a "comfortable captivity" while his soldiers were left starving in makeshift POW camps. On hearing the news, Napoleon's wife asked "why didn't he kill himself?"
yQNGX TIL that during World War II, Disney made animated films for every branch of the U.S. military and government. 90% of Disney employees were devoted to producing the animations. One film had Donald Duck in an nightmare were he worked in a Nazi artillery factory, and ate in very small rations.
lowpG TIL that in some cultures, the 'checkmark' is used to denote wrong, or incorrect items, including Finland, Sweden and Japan.
OGArX TIL that it was once proposed to bury nuclear waste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, with the theory that tectonic plate subduction would eventually push it down into the Earth's mantle