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TIL that golf will be an Olympic sport in 2016

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Mep0 TIL Muhammad Ali threw his Olympic gold medal into an Ohio river to protest racial discrimination in America
oELr TIL that Crispin Glover was not in Back to the Future II, they used prosthetic molds of his face onto a different actor causing him to file a lawsuit.
KYVWG TIL that Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the stars of Romeo and Juliet (1968), sued Paramount, alleging they were misled into performing nude scenes. They were 15 and 16 at the time.
OoeN6 TIL that James Cameron, the most successful director in the world, only makes Hollywood movies in order to pay for his complex explorations.
ADKK7 TIL that Helicopter money is a proposed unconventional monetary policy, sometimes suggested as an alternative to quantitative easing (QE) when the economy is in a liquidity trap (when interest rates near zero and the economy remains in recession)