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neQ7 TIL in 1912 Teddy Roosevelt Split from the Republican Party and ran on a platform calling for a National Heath Service along with an End to the “… the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics [of both parties]…”
oO4r TIL The first modern Olympic medalist was kicked from Harvard because he went to the Olympics after a denied leave of absence
D1b7v TIL Eddie Murphy bet Richard Pryor $100,000 that he had singing talent. "Party All The Time" went on to #2 on the Billboard chart
9YrN7 TIL how Spanish runner Iván Fernández Anaya intentionally lost a race. Kenyan runner and race leader Abel Mutai stopped 10-20 meters short of the finish line, thinking he had already won. Instead of passing him, Anaya stopped and told Mutai to keep running, thus allowing Mutai to win.
YpkdA TIL that 500,000 Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian military since 1969