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TIL Olympic gold medals composed at least 92.5% of silver
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ADMvB
TIL that velociraptors were only slightly bigger than the average chicken.
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TIL that the first thing sold on the internet was a bag of marijuana between M.I.T. and Stanford using Arpanet accounts.
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TIL that the theme song of Dawson's Creek was supposed to be "Hand In My Pocket" by Alanis Morrisette but after the creator failed to obtain the licensing for the song, he went instead with "I Don't Want To Wait" by Paula Cole.
9YDVG
TIL that despite being aligned with Nazi Germany in WWII, Finnish Jews were not persecuted by the government of Finland. The Finnish Army set up the only field synagogue on the Eastern Front and Finnish Jews fought with Germans in support of the Axis Powers.
LBgp
TIL that humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet, able to beat natural running animals( horses and dogs) in marathon distance races.