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TIL that in the 2000 Paralympic games, Spain was stripped of its intellectually disabled basketball gold medal after it was revealed that only 2 of its 12 basketball players actually had an IQ below 75, the requirement to qualify. Intellectual disability would be abandoned until the 2012 Paralympics

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WkgLL TIL astronaut Wally Schirra would take pictures of his frozen pee as it floated through space, glinting with sunlight. The pee-flakes looked like a beautiful starfield, he said. One astronomer saw a photo & asked what constellation it was, and Schirra said "Jocelyn, that's the constellation Urion."
R7858 TIL that the cave art in European caves was made by Neandertals and not by early humans
Mjmb TIL the story that NASA spent $1 million on a space pen while the soviets simply used a pencil is false. The pen was developed by a private company without any taxpayer dollars and NASA simply became a client afterwards.
J1aD8 TIL drug cartels started making "multicolored rainbow fentanyl" in response to accidental overdoses
d9Pj TIL of William James Sidis, a child prodigy thought to have been the smartest man who ever lived, who escaped the limelight and worked blue collar jobs, secretly writing thousands of manuscripts that have never been read.