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TIL Leonidas of Rhodes' Olympic Record of 12 individual victories (164 - 152 BC) stood for over 2100 years before being eclipsed by Michael Phelps in 2016

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WkWkB TIL 2 hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS Ward identified and destroyed a Japanese mini-sub attempting to pass through the anti-submarine nets at Pearl Harbor. These were the first American shots fired during WW2, and removed America's neutrality in the war.
woVNW TIL 185 out of 210 examinees, or nearly 7 out of 8, passed Harvard's first entrance exam of 1869 and got accepted
Ov9L TIL that English adjectives have a specific order - Opinion, Size, Physical Quality, Shape, Age, Colour, Origin, Material, Type, Purpose
awn6A TIL that there’s a monsoon flood in southeast Asia that’s 10x worse than Harvey, during the same period.
9w6m7 TIL Peter O'Toole once had an abominable MacBeth debut that drew "fits of laughter" and had "a dimly lit collection of black plastic phalluses swaying in the wind"