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TIL Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record Holder Usain Bolt ate 1,000 chicken nuggets and still managed to win three gold medals while competing and staying in Beijing, China.

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QN489 TIL that Nazi Field Marshal Erhard Milch, after being asked about his opinion on concentration camp atrocities, was beaten by Brigadier General Derek Mills-Roberts with his own Marshal's baton, and eventually a champagne bottle. He ultimately suffered from severe fractures to his skull.
xVW7o TIL “Con Man” is short for “Confidence Man” based on Samuel Thompson, a man who would ask people to give him money or their watch to show their confidence in him.
BgLNy TIL Göbekli Tepe: The oldest discovered temple in the world. Located in the Germus mountains of southeastern Anatolia, this property features monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures built by hunter-gatherers during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period between 9,600 and 8,200 BC.
0b95 TIL that James Franco launched a college course entitled “Master Class: Editing James Franco…with James Franco,” in which student editors are to compile a 30 minute documentary on Franco, using behind the scenes footage of Franco supplied by Franco, to “create a cinematic image of James Franco.”
v1d78 TIL During the Trial of Joan of Arc, the prosecution, headed by Pierre Cauchon, sent an agent to France to collect dirt on her life in her home village. Cauchon was enraged when the agent "had found nothing concerning Joan that he would not have liked to find about his own sister".