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TIL London 2012 was the first Olympic Games ever to be completed without a single fatality in construction. Over 60 were killed in the construction of the Sochi games

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eegD TIL Dolphins can see our skeletons and heartbeats via their sonar and have even been known to ward off sharks preying on humans.
99mr TIL Alaska has the highest botulism rate in the U.S. and one of the highest worldwide. According to the CDC, close to 40 percent of food-borne botulism cases reported in the U.S. between 1990 and 2000 (103 of 263) occurred in Alaska, one of the least populous states.
na8G TIL that in the 1960s Nintendo manufactured a toy called Ultra Hand. made of criss-crossed plastic elements that enabled its user to pick up objects. It was very successful and helped save Nintendo from serious financial difficulties. Its inventor went on to create the Game Boy.
lokrB TIL that during the Great Depression, a prominent attorney flipped $2 (inflation adjusted $31) into $100,000 ($1,500,000). He then proceeded to award the money to the woman who could give birth to the most amount of kids in the following decade.
w5KY TIL the movie “Blazing Saddles” was the first film from a major studio to have a fart joke.