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TIL At the 2002 winter Olympics, an Australian went from last place to winning the gold medal in speed skating after every other skater crashed on the last corner.

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nAd7 TIL of Missing White Woman Syndrome - the phenomenon of the media’s extensive cover on missing upper middle class white women who disappear compared to missing men, women of color or lower class
WkeEY TIL that Kurt Gödel, an Austrian-American logician and mathematician, died of starvation when his wife was hospitalized. Gödel refused to eat food prepared by anyone else, as he was suffering from an obsessive fear of being poisoned
Y7n7P TIL the name of Charles Entertainment Cheese, mascot of Chuck E. Cheese
GAeQ TIL the Ramones took their band name from the pseudonym Paul McCartney would use when checking into hotels, Paul Ramon.
QJ8N6 TIL that residents in Surabaya, Indonesia can pay for the bus with plastic waste instead of money. Paying with plastic will grant you with 2 hours of travel. The aim is to reduce plastic waste whilst getting more people to use public transport, thus lowering the number of cars on the road.