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TIL a Dad ran into the 400m semifinals of an olympic race to help his son finish after he pulled his hamstring.

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E1p0x TIL USA spent about 24 billion dollars on the “Saturn-Apollo” program until 1969, which would correspond to the sum of about 150 billion dollars today. It was the price to pay to make history, for the first people on the Moon to be American astronauts.
e0NrJ TIL that a Taliban commander wanted with a bounty on his head gave himself up to try to collect that bounty.
Oo5lX TIL that for every one bird killed by wind turbines in the U.S. there are 4,000 to 17,000 killed by cats.
8wNL TIL Usain Bolt ate 1,000 chicken mcnuggets over 10 days at the Beijing Olympics.
KK89 TIL of Hans Island, a tiny uninhabited Arctic island claimed by both Canada & Denmark. Traditionally, Canadian expeditions leave behind a bottle of whiskey for the Danes, while Danish sailors leave Aquavit.