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TIL putting higher octane gasoline in your low-end car has absolutely zero benefit

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neAy7 TIL the medals in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are made from metals recovered from recycled cell phones collected since 2017.
xnZg TIL Olympic / sports doping offers an example of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: if no athlete dopes, nobody has an advantage; if one does, he/she benefits, but if all athletes dope then the advantage disappears and only the potential negatives (getting caught) remain.
o1nK TIL that it is illegal to die in a town in Italy
nBwB TIL that after the 1998 movie “The Man From Earth” was illegally shared via BitTorrent, the producer publically thanked the file sharers because it “lifted the profile of the film far beyond the financier’s expectations”, and caused a rise in legal sales
GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”