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TIL that the first Winter Olympics took place in Chamonix, France in 1924, only four nations participated in the inaugural event.

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6Em17 TIL that Wendy Carlos is not only the pioneer of EM (soundtracks composed include Clockwork Orange and The Shining) but also an inspiration for the LGTBQ community as the first trans woman to come out publically.
yrDw TIL in an act of industrial espionage, a Japanese scientist who stole an incomplete capacitor design led to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for companies like IBM, Dell, Apple, HP and Intel, in a decade long onslaught of faulty electronics known as The Capacitor Plague.
glX8 TIL that a girl in Iran gave birth at the age of 9 after being prostituted by her parents. When she was 19, she was sentenced to death for incest and prostitution, until a lawyer intervened and had her sentence reduced to public beating and imprisonment.
WkaxB TIL since the body of Roger Marie Bricoux, one of the musicians of the Titanic, was never recovered, he was declared a deserter by the French army and it took until year 2000 for him to be officially recognized as having died in the sinking.
vPjBK TIL about Bill Benter, a gambler who wrote an algorithm that helped him win nearly $1 billion on horse races.