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TIL Olympic gold medals composed at least 92.5% of silver

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GYEgN TIL Kwihnai Tosabitʉ (White Eagle), a Comanche medicine man, convinced his tribe that they were invincible before a battle. After their defeat, he was blamed and thereafter known as Isatai'i (Coyote Vagina)
4Ywa TIL there are blue bandaids with metal in them so they can be detected by metal detectors in food processing factories.
LVEZ TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera
yA6l TIL: The white people of South Africa are on genocide watch. About 50 people on average are murdered in South-Africa per day, of which at least 20 of them are whites with a 95% black on white murder rate. White people make up only 9% of South Africa’s population.
rRewx TIL A wild turkey named Turk Diggler likely escaped an agricultural event and has been meandering through neighborhoods for the past year in Calgary, Alberta much to the residents' delight.