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TIL that following the lifting of a ban on intimacy at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the game organizers gave out 300,000 free condoms to the 10,500 athletes living in the Olympic Villages—or roughly 29 per person

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KYXlG Today I learned that when Dr. Seuss lived in La Jolla, California, the US postal service kept confusing him with a nuclear physicist named Dr. Hans Suess who also lived in La Jolla.
Y7e6x TIL Thomas Edison coined the term "Bug" when a machine doesn't work decades before Grace Hopper found a dead moth in a computer in the 1940s, which is where most people attribute its origins to.
DxXe TIL - Chicago has the highest murder rate in the country, and the lowest prosecution rate for gun crimes (Forbes)
Y7daB TIL that the Reichstag fire was used as a pretext for the Reichstag Decree which suspended civil liberties to pursue a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communists.
K7nB TIL that if you play dead in order to kill or capture an enemy in a war scenario, you are committing a war crime according to the Geneva Convention!