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TIL in 1900, a young Chicago arts student took part in a golf tournament while visiting Paris, recording the best score. This “tournament” turned out to be the Olympics, and she died never knowing she was an Olympic champion, America’s first female Olympic champion no less.

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xraD TIL a soldier in Iraq was found dead in her tent in 2005. The autopsy report and photographs revealed a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals, and a gunshot wound to the head. Her death was ruled a suicide.
wWd7 TIL: In “Batman and Captain America”, the Joker teamed up with a character named Red Skull. However, on learning the character was actually a nazi and not just pretending, the Joker turned on him, proclaimed “I may be a criminal lunatic, but I’m an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!”
4XM1J TIL Human zoos, also called ethnological expositions, were 19th- and 20th-century public exhibitions of humans, usually in an erroneously labeled "natural" or "primitive" state.
ZpAA4 TIL The Woodworth Personal Data Sheet is cited as the first personality test. Developed during the First World War the test was first published in 1919. The test consists of 116 yes/no questions with some modern personality test questions still tracing back to the first ever test.
p84Wp TIL The celebrity holdout of the Mt. St Helens eruption, Harry Truman, refused to believe the volcano would be a threat to him. His family was futile in an attempt to bribe him away with whisky. On 05/18/80 Harry was buried under 150 ft of volcanic ash with his 16 cats.