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v1Ogr TIL that the Olympic Rings (actually designed in 1912) were mistakingly thought to be an ancient Greek symbol, after researchers in the 1950s found a stone with the symbol carved on it in Delphi. The stone turned out to be a leftover from a ceremony held there for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
X0JAD TIL that until 1773, Harvard University graduates were ranked not by academic merit but according to their birth status or rank of their parents.
KrZw TIL that when Douglas Adams was writing Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, he created the Infinite Improbability Drive whenever he had no clue how to rescue Arthur and Ford when they were shot into space.
4kljN TIL The Rosetta Stone, which was used to learn to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, contained text about tax exemptions for temples and priests.
Alog TIL that although over 55,000 people die every year from rabies, as of 2011 only three ever survived the disease once symptoms were present, using a technique involving an induced coma.