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TIL the first Olympic Flag was missing for 77 years after the 1920 games until one of the athletes found it in his suitcase

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4XjJa TIL that the March of Dimes charity was founded in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help fight polio, and became such a success that the dime itself was redesigned in 1946 to honor him.
WGwo TIL that Wikipedia had to ban IP’s from Congress to stop them from changing each other’s entries.
kOwg4 TIL that the name of the eponymous character "STAN" from Eminem's biggest hit song of the same name ,has given rise to a slang term online which refers to overzealous, maniacal, overly obsessed fans of a celebrity or personality; the term has since been included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
BrYPr TIL that the 1989 rap album: As Nasty As They Wanna Be, resulted in a court case where the federal government wanted to censor the music on the album due to its obscenity, had they won, the precedent set would have made Hip-Hop artists lose the right to their freedom of speech.
6EMZW TIL that the hit song Children by Robert Miles was composed to calm rave parties at the end of the night and reduce car accidents on the way back home