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TIL that while the US Men's "dream team" was dominating basketball in 1992, the women's team actually suffered its only Olympic loss in the past 40 years, and went home with a bronze

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JjP4 TIL there is a cluster of oil wells on the campus of Beverly Hills High School that generates about $300,000 of revenue per year for the school.
Ooxy4 TIL Six Georgia inmates out on work detail saved a Deputy Sheriff who collapsed unconscious. They could have taken his gun & fled with the work van but used the Deputy's phone to call 911. The Sheriff's Office gave the men a pizza party with homemade dessert & recommended reduced sentences.
E1jV TIL When Julius Caesar was captured and held hostage by pirates, he told them he would crucify them all personally. The pirates took it as a joke, but when the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, captured the pirates, and crucified them.
7JRO TIL that last year astronauts in the International Space Station found plankton OUTSIDE one of its windows. They have no explanation for it.
MeRxV TIL that Director Spike Lee publicly criticized Clint Eastwood for lack of African-American performers in "Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese POV of the war)," in which Eastwood retaliated, that the US military refused to let most "colored" servicemen on the front line.