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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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wdKJ TIL a guy cut off the head of his pregnant wife’s lover with a knife in a phonebooth and delivered it to her bedside while she was in the hospital
nWKBW TIL after Leona Helmsley did not pay her contractors that worked on her Connecticut home, she was investigated for tax evasion, and she received a 16 year sentence. During trial her housekeeper testified that Helmsley said "only the little people pay taxes." She ended up serving 19 months in prison.
Lpa9 TIL a grown man once hunted down and attacked a child who had killed him several times in Call Of Duty.
LkdkV TIL: The Ogre Faced Spider's eyes are more sensitive than both a cat's and an owls, but every day at dawn the photosensitive portion of it's eyes are destroyed by the sun, and the arachnid has to regrow this portion each and every evening.
jNYxn Today I learned dog poo doesn't turn white any more because they stopped putting bone meal in dog food