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TIL Kobe Bryant is the only person to have won both an Olympic medal and an Oscar

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4vZR TIL there is a 99 year old man, who walks several kilometers every day, to beg for money that he completely donates to charitable causes.
1nBP TIL that in the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, in order to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.
bro4 TIL: At least 15 repeat sex offenders in California have asked for surgical castration as a way of avoiding indefinite incarceration.
QNRG9 TIL that in 2019, a 65-year-old man in Colorado robbed a bank, threw the money into the street while shouting "Merry Christmas!", and then calmly waited for the police at a nearby Starbucks.
laO5 TIL Thomas Midgley who invented Ethyl, the lead-based additive to gasoline, also invented chlorofluorocarbons, which just about destroyed the ozone layer. He got polio, invented a wire-and-pulley system to get himself out of bed, and then ended up being strangled by it.