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TIL Nike dropped Allyson Felix's 7 yr old sponsorship because she asked that she shouldn't be punished if her performance dropped due to childbirth. 10 months later she won a gold medal breaking Usain Bolt's world record for most gold medals in world championships history, with her daughter watching

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GA5EQ TIL: There was a planned Führermuseum in Germany that was expected to be completed in 1950 which would be a large art museum intended to be filled with thousands of confiscated artwork from the war. Many artworks intended to be displayed were re-looted when they lost and lost forever.
PDO TIL that a plane crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 20 people, because everyone onboard ran to one end of the plane and it became severely imbalanced. Why did they do this?-They were fleeing a crocodile! Also the croc survived the crash
jNKMQ TIL that Kuwait offered $500M in aid to the US after Katrina, which was mostly rejected, and ended up giving $25M to the Red Cross instead
EBl0 TIL that there are a lot of political graffiti in Pompeii that shows that political campaigns never really changed, such as “Vote X, he brings good bread”, “the thieves vote for Y” and “vote Z, this will save the public purse”
GAPWQ TIL Via Transilvanica hiking trail in Romania is probably the longest outdoor art exhibition in the world. The path is 1400km long and for each kilometer there is an andesite stone bollard marking the trail, each one hand-sculpted with a unique design.