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TIL the Summer Olympic Games featured fine arts competitions from 1912 until 1948. Artists could compete in the categories of architecture, painting, sculpture, literature and music.

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D1WPv TIL that Roger Ebert, Weird Al Yankovic, Jerry Seinfeld, Terry Gillam, and Dave Gibbons (the author of Watchmen), among others, all give credit to MAD Magazine for the reason they're in their respective careers and for being one of the largest influences on them.
VPNk TIL Häagen-Dazs is not a European company, it was invented by two brothers in New York and the name itself is completely made up
wyRE TIL Nicky Barnes was a notorious drug trafficker who posed on the cover of The New York Times Magazine as “Mr. Untouchable”. Then President Jimmy Carter was so insulted by this he ordered his attorney general to prosecute Barnes right away. He was convicted and sent to life in prison.
yQ1ra TIL Of Nicholas Winton who was known for organizing the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the 9 months before war broke out in 1939.
eb75 TIL the EU commission has an alphabetised list of myths about the EU, from the British press, followed by full explanations of what really happened.