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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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Me0na TIL of Cliff Young, a 61-year-old farmer who won a 875-km ultramarathon wearing only farm boots and pants, and broke the previous record by two days.
awK7A TIL that Crimean Gothic, the last survivor of the East Germanic language group (Including the Gothic of the tribes who sacked Rome, and Vandalic) is attested to being spoken in Crimea as late as the 19th century, a full 900 years after the rest of the language subfamily died out
xYG5 TIL that Po, the smallest Teletubby, is 6 ft. 6 in., while Tinky-Winky looms around 10 ft. tall. Though onscreen the Fab Four appear to be a baby-friendly size, in ‘person’ they are gargantuan, bigger than Barney, bigger even than Big Bird.
7raV7 TIL "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh spent millions of dollars over seven years quietly bankrolling efforts to free the West Memphis 3, three Arkansas men who supporters say were wrongly convicted of the murders of three children.
YWgW TIL NASA stated that the use of nuclear power saved an average of over 1.8 million lives between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution though reduced coal usage.