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TIL the Olympics once included a competition for art works inspired by sports in categories including architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.

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Oo8VL TIL of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, coined by Michael Crichton after discussions with Nobel-Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, which defines the idea that, "I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong."
Y4Gv TIL that the Hoover Dam can not generate electricity if the elevation of Lake Mead’s water level drops below 320m. In 2016, it reached 326m, down from a high of 370 in the 1980s.
9YkOX TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker
QJY5k TIL around the year 180,000,000 earth days will start lasting 25 hours
gMjL7 TIL Mavis Beacon is not a real person. She was played by Renée L'Espérance, who worked at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.