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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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lonW1 TIL in 1976, a mule named Lord Fauntleroy beat 200 horses in the 3,500-mile Great American Horse Race. Along the way, Norton, the mule’s rider, would often stop to help other riders, beat everyone by 10 hours, and retired with the $25,000 prize while calling himself the “Great American Horseman.”
xVJEk TIL San Francisco had a bubonic plague epidemic in 1900-04, but the governor ignored medical experts and denied that it existed, because he feared its impact on businesses
KOnY4 TIL that an estimated 25% of young adults in the U.S. have a fear of the slight pain caused by needles called trypanophobia, and that it may lead 16% of young adults in the U.S. to skip getting medical injections.
0jXv TIL Lord Kelvin observed that a ship’s wake is always at an angle of 19.47 degrees, regardless of its speed. This claim still holds true for most situations
X0gKX TIL that according to the bible, Adam, Eve, and a bunch of their descendants lived for several centuries, some even getting close to a millennium.