› added 10 years ago

72

TIL The first man to finish the 1904 Olympics marathon rode in a car most of the way. The winner was carried across the finish line after ingesting poison. Fourth place took a nap en route. One of the two first black Olympians came in ninth after being chased a mile off course by wild dogs.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

GYJYE TIL that it’s biologically possible to Smell Parkinson’s disease
78GaO TIL that a 2012 article in New York selected Benjamin Harrison as the "most forgotten president."
gM5jW TIL Physicians in the middle ages would drink their patients urine to diagnose medical conditions. They were able to accurately diagnose diabetes because the urine tasted sweet.
p8nA8 TIL that in 1922 a suitcase containing almost everything the young Ernest Hemingway had written up to that time was stolen in a train station in Paris. No trace of this suitcase has ever been discovered, despite the fact that the unpublished stories it contained would be incredibly valuable.
a8vO0 TIL: Mourning a Dog Can Be Harder Than Mourning a Person