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TIL The last king of Greece, Constantine II, won Greece’s first Olympic gold medal since 1912 in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also lived in exile for 40 years.

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Br6wd TIL The British and Argentina had a naval war in the 1980's. Falkland War.
kOyD5 TIL that Long Island is a "terminal moraine", which is the pile of debris that glaciers pushed along as they advanced south during previous ice ages. You can see two set of hills that formed from glacier movement.
GYdE5 TIL that in 1997 the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial
b6Zda TIL of Piso Firme, a project which replaced dirt floors with concrete floors in Mexican slums. Changing the flooring, improved the residents' health and happiness, but also their children's communication and vocabularies.
N7wE1 TIL Rasputin's autopsy showed no signs of poisoning, no water in his lungs, and in-tact genitalia. He simply died from three bullet wounds and the popular story of his incredible survivability is likely completely inaccurate.