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TIL Olympic medals used to be given for “Town Planning”

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xw9B TIL that every year on February 14th, the nation of Iran sends Salman Rushdie a reminder of their promise to kill him for writing The Satanic Verses.
XEwVD TIL of Pax Americana, a period of relative peace beginning around the middle of the 20th century, brought about by the dominant power of the United States. Similar time periods were Pax Romana and Pax Britannica.
LNOd TIL in 1958 Ford designed the Nucleon, a car powered by a uranium fission steam engine. It was the inspiration for the “Atomic V8” engines in the Fallout games.
AJDx TIL: In the late 19th century the feminist movements in both Europe and America were decidedly anti-condom. Feminists wanted birth control to be exclusively in the hands of women, and disapproved of male-controlled methods such as the condom.
5LKk TIL the US flew nearly 40 billion dollars to Iraq in shrink-wrapped $100 bills, then distributed the cash with no accounting for where it ended up