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TIL with his dad totally against it, 19-yr-old Fabio Lanzoni moved to the US & within 48 hrs of arriving he walked into the Ford modeling agency without an appointment & walked out with a $150K contract. The next day he was hired for the launch of Gap Inc. Then began to pose for 15 book covers a day

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xl4g TIL the 1904 Olympic marathon ‘winner’ cheated by using a car, the second place finisher drank brandy mixed with rat poison, another athlete was chased off course by dogs, and another ate a rotten apple during the run.
worn1 TIL the first female detective in the US, Kate Warne, foiled at assassination attempt against President Lincoln when she was 23
m1LjO TIL Beethoven kept his hearing loss a secret. He once wrote(but never send) a letter to his brother confessing it and explained that people mistakenly thought he was antisocial: he longed for human contact but became a recluse out of shame for his condition and all this made him contemplate suicide
V81B TIL The Moon is masculine in Hindu mythology, has 27 wives, 1 pair of in-laws, and an adulterous relationship and a child with Jupiter’s only wife.
OGM4a TIL that the US (22% of the UN budget), China (12.005%), Japan (8.564%) and Germany (6.090%) – together finance some 49% of the entire UN budget.