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Today I learned that Olympic gold medals are actually more than 90% silver.

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oLP7 TIL that, to his inauguration, Wyoming’s first Democratic governor wore shoes made from the skin of a lynched train robber
lY4A TIL the first official motor vehicle “speeding” ticket was handed out in the UK, when a gentleman named Walter Arnold was caught rocketing down the road at the breakneck speed of… 8 MPH.
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