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TIL Medals from 2016 Rio Olympic Games are defective and show rusting, chipping

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6E6w7 TIL that children's TV host Soupy Sales, during one of his programs, asked children to send him the "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents" from their parent's wallets and purses. He received thousands of dollars in the mail and was suspended for two weeks.
EWNo TIL: of Willem Arondeus, a Homosexual Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who bombed the Amsterdam Public Records Office to hinder the Nazi identification of Jews. He was arrested & executed. His last words were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”
kQMm TIL a metabolite of the dissociative anaesthetic ketamine (2S,6S-HNK) has an antidepressant effect which works within minutes and a single dose lasts weeks. Standard antidepressants like Prozac take WEEKS
vPMPr TIL Michelle Pfiefer put a real live bird in her mouth for her role as Catwoman in Batman Returns
MYG8 TIL that in addition to limitations of the hours they can drive, New Jersey drivers under 21 must display a reflective sticker on the front and back license plates of any car they drive to instantly alert other drivers that a younger driver is behind the wheel.