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TIL in the Paris 2024 Olympics' women’s street skateboarding the gold winner was 14 y/o, silver 15 y/o and bronze 16 y/o

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QJ81E TIL that the entomologist Justin O. Schmidt created the ''Schmidt sting pain index''. This scale rates the pain from stings of ants, wasps and bees. While getting stung by a warrior wasp, he told to himself: ''Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?''.
0XxN TIL in 2010 the last batch of anti-venom for one of the most venomous snakes in the world expired and will no longer be produced or available due to lack of profitability.
8ek7a TIL the Wright brothers' father only flew once when he was already 82 years old. The aircraft rose to about 350 feet with the old man encouraging his son "Higher, Orville, higher!"
JYDB4 TIL you would need to eat about 200 apple seeds, or about 20 whole apples to kill yourself.
Z8PRB TIL In 1966, the first chess game between computer programs was played. The game took nine months and was played over telegraph.