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TIL Usain Bolt suffers from scoliosis and has one leg slightly shorter than the other, as a result of that.

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yVbvl TIL that all-pro NFL running back Christian McCaffrey's grandfather was the silver medalist in the 100 Meters at the 1960 Olympics, losing the Gold medal in a photo finish.
BrXGy TIL the equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
W77o9 TIL about the Krupp family. A 400 year old dynasty of weapons manufactures that been selling weapons since the thirty years war and were the premier weapons manufactures for Germany during both world wars. They still exist today after merging with Thyssen to form the ThyssenKrupp corporation.
5YOx8 TIL that there is a widespread belief—one with no historical or grammatical foundation—that it is an error to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as and, but or so. In fact, a substantial percentage (often as many as 10 percent) of the sentences in first-rate writing begin with conjunctions.
ADjNw TIL the last search and rescue dog to assist after the September 11 terrorist attacks died in 2016 after retiring to be a reading dog