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TIL that amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class

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mxNxE TIL that Madagascar has a larger population than Australia by almost a million people. Madagascar has a population of 25,570,900 while Australia has 24,598,930.
woKR6 TIL Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, despite playing Bill and Ted who play guitar in the movies, aren't actually guitar players, but in fact, both play bass guitar.
p8mvN TIL many Jews fought back against the Nazis. Eta Wrobel escaped transport to a concentration camp and helped organize a resistance group. Refusing to just cook and clean, she carried a weapon on patrols and set mines to destroy German vehicles. Once, she dug a bullet out of her own leg with a knife.
OoNlg TIL the United States Postal Inspection Service has it's own Wall Of Honor for fallen officers located in the Smithsonian Postal Museum, DC
MevK8 TIL that in the 1800s, mental asylum staff thought it would be a good idea to add a tall stone lookout tower that mentally ill patients could climb up for 'breathtaking views'. Many patients committed suicide by jumping out the tower's open windows.