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TIL 1948 winter Olympic Game’s athletes lacked the resources to compete post WWII, to the point where the Norwegian team had to borrow skis from the American team

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v1Kl4 TIL Alan Turing was charged with "gross indencency" after self-reporting a burglary and telling the police about the relationship he had with a man he suspected was involved. He chose chemical castration as his sentence. This caused him to grow breasts, become depressed, triggers for his suicide.
dDraE TIL That During Segregation, It Was Illegal In the State of Alabama For a Black Person And a White Person To Play Checkers Together.
xVlY7 TIL a child is 16 times safer riding to school in a school bus than in a family vehicle
MVwV TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay about the universe begining from a “single originating particle” 80 years before the idea of The Big Bang.
69GpQ TIL that the 25 day long 1990 Strangeways Prison Riot was the longest ever British prison riot, started in protest against overcrowded and unhygienic conditions, guard brutality, and the misuse of drugs.