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TIL Only five Olympians have ever won more than eight gold medals. Four of them have nine golds each. Michael Phelps is the fifth, with an unbelievable 23.

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9YkjB TIL about Melanesia Sergeant Major Jacob Vouza who was captured by the Japanese, hung from a tree and beaten with rifles, tied to a red ant hill, bayonetted seven times in the chest and once in the throat, but still managed to chew through his restraints and deliver news of the impending attack
g8ry TIL a woman attacked her husband when she found “disgusting pornography” in his car. By which she meant “copies of The Onion”.
exL4 TIL, Microsoft makes $2 billion a year from Android
6Oyl TIL There was an abandoned Russian Cruise ship that refused to die, was left to float around the oceans, and may have sunk in 2013, but nobody knows for sure.
d8Mp7 TIL the Norse gods eventually got sick of Loki’s pranks, tied him up with the entrails of his kids, and had a snake drip poison in his face for 10,000 years