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TIL That Lance Armstrong tried to destroy Greg LeMond’s legacy because LeMond accused Armstrong of using PEDs.

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JQK1 TIL the famed black opera singer, Marian Anderson, while performing at Princeton’s concert Hall, was refused lodging at the nearest inn because of her race. Upon hearing this, one local invited her to stay at his home. That man’s name? Albert Einstein.
E15wW TIL The Russian Empire spanned into Alaska, Northern California, and parts of Hawaii before selling its colonial possessions to the US in 1867.
Gp5E TIL that groups of human beings, left free to each regulate themselves, tend to produce spontaneous order, rather than meaningless chaos
YgM7 TIL all prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells
W0Xo TIL When WR104, a binary star goes supernova, the solar system could be flooded with gamma radiation destroying all life on earth.