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TIL John Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without any recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos.

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e0eEJ TIL in 2015 A man had his sentence doubled after an appeal judge decided his original 4 year sentence received from starting a toilet fire on a commercial aircraft from a cigarette was too lenient
x69BD TIL during making of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan's actor Roger Clark was told that he had to do the horse lines again because "It’s a little too intimate. It sounds like you’re not talking to a horse". After hearing the recording back, the actor agreed to redo the lines.
4Xmjw TIL the nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s can help identify forged paintings by using radiocarbon dating. Authenticators can count the number of carbon 14 isotopes and decide whether the number is realistic for the time. Carbon 14 isotopes are known to have dramatically increased after these tests.
loKP5 TIL that, one of the few references that Leonardo Da Vinci made to sexuality in his notebooks states: "The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions."
pPQp TIL: A majority of people who’ve had a near-death-experience report sensations of detachment from the body, total serenity, warmth and the presence of a light. However a minority have reported panic, anguish, desperation, intense loneliness and the sensing of evil, malevolent forces