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TIL all competitors in the Olympics get a participation medal.

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GLX1 TIL that male soldiers in the German military started growing breasts on their left sides due to repeated smacking of their rifles against their chests during precision drills. The focused strikes stimulated the production of hormones causing breast tissue to grow in over 70% of the soldiers.
RX86 TIL, at 23% California has the highest poverty rate in the US despite having an economy that ranks top 10 in the world.
KO7AB TIL of Tim Macartney-Snape an Australian who was technically the first person to climb all of Everest. He started with a swim in the Bay of Bengal over 700 miles away, ran 1.5 marathons in 5 days to reach a checkpoint crossing, and 29,031ft in elevation gain later he summited Everest.
DQdWP TIL that Potassium Benzoate is a food preservative and is safe to consume, with low toxicity
Ypodd TIL that Mt. Washington in New Hampshire claims to have "the world's worst weather," averaging 110 days per year with hurricane-force winds and the record for wind speed not associated with a tornado or tropical cyclone (231 mph)