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TIL Spain’s basketball team was stripped of their Special Olympic gold medal after it was discovered they organized a team of healthy individuals to pose as mentally handicapped.

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5OZr TIL There is a website that will tell you if your computer is on or not.
N7pMQ TIL about the powers of Queen Elizabeth II, that she can fire the whole Australian government, has her own personal poet, can drive without a license, owns every Dolphin in British waters
x6aEk TIL The AT&SF Railroad operated a freight only airline division starting in 1946, pioneering refrigerated compartments, operated from West Coast to the Midwest. They were shut down by the CAB in 1947, citing a rule not allowing railroads to operate aircraft. Names the Santa Fe Skyway.
R5NGl TIL the youngest person to walk on the moon is Charles Duke. He was born in 1935
YO8G TIL that deer in the Czech Republic don’t cross into Germany, following the example of parents who learned to avoid the electrified fence there during the Cold War