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TIL the Olympics used to include medals for Art

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QN0N9 TIL of Phillppe Khan who in 1997 invented the camera phone.The first photo being of his new born daughter Sophie.
v18Qj TIL the trial for the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire cheating scandal (where the winner was accused of hearing answers from a series of coughs) had to be suspended due to a cough outbreak in the courtroom
XENy8 TIL that the the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, setting of the show "Murder She Wrote," has a murder rate of 149 per 100,000 residents; compared to St. Louis, Missouri, which lead the U.S. in 2020 with 87 murders per 100k residents.
kJEB TIL that at Treblinka death camp during WWII, the commander of the camp, Kurt Franz, frequently enjoyed kicking and killing babies arriving at the camp.
6E81X TIL: The Great Whiskey Fire of Dublin in 1875 was when 5000 barrels of whiskey ignited and flowed into the streets. 13 people died that day, but not from burns or smoke inhalation. They died from alcohol poisoning after trying to drink it all.