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TIL Ivory Coast's Murielle Ahoure couldn’t find an Ivory Coast flag so she celebrated her 60m gold with Irish flag given to her by a spectator

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5YnJR TIL while only being roughly the size of North Carolina, the island of Java sustains a population of 141 million. Comparatively the population of Japan is 145.9 million and three times the size in area.
6EPew TIL that there was a successful chess-playing machine called "The Turk" constructed in late 18th century. Its secret, a chess master inside, wasn't revealed for almost a century.
Jwmj TIL Yann Martel ripped off a Brazilian writer for the inspiration for ‘Life of Pi’.
OGYdg TIL the first Vampire / Dracula movie is 100 years old, released in 1922. It was an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
VBdRQ TIL almost every elites in Atlanta boycotted event honoring MLK's Nobel Prize win. When Coca Cola threatened to move HQ away from Atlanta, 1200 people attended the event.