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TIL Olympic medalist Eugène Balme, who won a bronze medal in men's shooting, committed suicide by shooting himself.

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nn6o TIL the United States Government, with the passage of the NDAA fiscal year 2013, overturned a 64 year ban on domestic propaganda usage. This action now allows the U.S. State Department to distribute and broadcast government propaganda to U.S. citizens.
QJdPM TIL the term apophenia is the perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. Apophenia can be a normal phenomenon or an abnormal one, as in paranoid schizophrenia when the patient sees ominous patterns where there are none.
VBXwp TIL that Humans and the Tree Shrew are the only known mammals that like spicy food.
VMxeQ TIL that the 1963 return of the village of Elten from the Netherlands to West Germany caused a bizarre 'smuggling' operation. Businessmen parked hundreds of trucks full of butter in the town on the night before the handover, dodging German import taxes when the border crossed the goods the next day