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TIL Finland and Sweden are the only countries in the world that have earned a medal at every Olympic game since 1908.

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97VM TIL in 1866, the State of Mississippi spent more than half its yearly budget providing Civil War veterans with prosthetics
xMyb TIL Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to Congress, voted in favor of the original House resolution that ultimately gave women the right to vote. She later noted that she was “the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote.”
OGKR1 TIL that, the Brothertown Indians were the first tribe of Native Americans in the United States to become United States citizens, which caused the tribe to relinquish their tribal sovereignty.
VBWOZ TIL in 2008 an Australian special forces dog named Sarbi spent almost 14 months missing in action after disappearing during an ambush. Eventually an American soldier noticed her with a local man & confirmed she was a trained military dog by using voice commands. She was then reunited w/ her handlers
Wka0Y TIL That there was a Nazi Concentration Camp on British soil in the Channel Islands of Alderney