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TIL that on this day in 2000, the US national debt was dropping.

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BAlK TIL that after Kirani James won Grenada’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in 2012, the country was so proud that the government held a giant 3-hour celebratory rally attended by thousands, gave him US$186,000, printed new stamps, named a new stadium after him, and built a museum/gym in his home town.
mxmKP TIL that while trapped in a Chilean mine for 69 days, Edison Peña ran several miles a day underground. He has since ran in the New York Marathon and Tokyo Marathon.
wL90o TIL After being upstaged by a mule outside of the opera where they were performing, the Marx Brothers switched from their musical act to telling jokes in order to keep the crowd entertained. It worked, and the rest is history.
BgmL TIL that Volkswagen was once the most valuable company in the world - for exactly one day.
vYo7 TIL that if you’re bilingual, you can be dyslexic in one language and not the other.