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TIL at the first Olympic marathon, the stopwatch from the start of the race had to be carried by bicycle all the way to the finish line before the first runners arrived.

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QAe6 TIL: Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel for insulting his wife. Jackson let the opponent shoot first, who hit Jackson in the chest. Then Jackson took his sweet time to aim. People called it too cold-blooded &, as a result, Jackson became a social outcast.
4XVLN TIL the last words of American murderer Robert Alton Harris. “You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper.”
x60N1 TIL - there was an earthquake and avalanche in Peru that killed up to 30k people in 1970, and was warned about several years prior, but was ignored by the government. The avalanche traveled about 100 miles.
OG6G4 TIL Corporal Nand Singh earned the Victoria Cross in WW2. He captured 3 trenches, killing soldiers with his bayonet despite wounds. He earned another medal in 1947, capturing a bunker by killing enemy with his bayonet. The Pakistanis threw his body in a garbage dump, never to be recovered.
e0RY6 TIL a man falsely imprisoned for 10 years spent most of his time at the library to study law and prove his innocence, and then became a lawyer to help free other people who have been falsely convicted.