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TIL The USA boycotted the 1980 summer olympics because it was held in Moscow

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Lkjr TIL John Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without any recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos.
e0nn5 TIL the maximum power output of a horse is actually 14.9 horsepower
Bg6eW TIL that 5 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Americans held a Miss Atomic Bomb pageant
0dWWv TIL house finches weren’t found in the eastern US until 1940 when they were illegally captured in California and brought to New York for pet shops to sell - until the owners of these shops got worried about getting busted for selling them - released them into the wild!
m7gR TIL Trey Parker (Co-creator of South Park) has an autographed picture of Saddam Hussein in his office.