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6ZAl TIL in 1908 the Russian Olympic team arrived at the Olympics in London 12 days late because it was still using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar
7roex TIL that an economist won the lottery 14 times by calculating when the Jackpot was worth more than the cost of buying every possible number combination for that lottery.
J1lQV TIL that the first Medal of Honor awarded by the U.S. Army was given to a group of Union soldiers who hijacked a Confederate train during the "Great Locomotive Chase" in 1862, a daring sabotage mission that became a pivotal moment in the Civil War.
pYdAO TIL of Anton-Babinski syndrome, a form of blindness from damage to the brain—cortical blindness, where the patient firmly denies their loss of vision, as the disconnection between speech and visual pathways causes them to lose the concept of sight, filling in gaps with hallucinations—confabulations.
ZG9v TIL that the Galileo probe experienced 230g of decceleration when entering Jupiters atmosphere, equivalent to a change in velocity from 5000mph to 0 in one second.