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TIL that in Summer Olympics a tie for first (and thus multiple gold medals) has occurred 26+ times

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XEXBD TIL Disney owns 12 of the 32 highest-grossing media franchises of all-time
ne1aW TIL in 2006, Sharon Tendler became the first human to officially marry a dolphin. The bottlenose dolphin named Cindy had courted her for 15 years at the Eilat Reef resort town in southern Israel. Tendler told the media, “I am the happiest girl on earth,” and she added, “I am not a pervert.”
4L46 TIL that Dr Catherine Hamlin and her husband answered an ad in 1958 for an obstetrician and gynaecologist to set up a midwifery school in Ethiopia. She still works there today at the age of 89. Happy International Women’s Day!
9Y41X TIL that thousands of poor Black women were sterilized involuntarily in several southern states by white physicians when they presented for care for other health issues. The procedure became known as a Mississippi Appendectomy.
jNePn TIL of Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese spy. He masqueraded as a woman and had a 20 year long sexual relationship with a French diplomat, whom he used as a source of intelligence. He even convinced the diplomat that he had given birth to a child, whom he had purchased.