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ONrg TIL in the 1936 Olympics, promoted by Hitler to prove that whites are superior, Peru beat Austria 4-2 on soccer, even though they had 3 other goals nullified. Later, the Olympic Comitee nullified the match and scheduled a rematch, to be taken under close grounds. Peru withdrew from the Olympics
oRYjK TIL the Largest Source of Power Outages in the US is not Lightening or Drunk Drivers, but Squirrels.
1Q7O TIL that people with Down syndrome, who used to have a life expectancy of about 25, are living to 60.
QNPOd TIL Capri-Sun is named after the Italian island of Capri
7rRVx TIL Walt Disney's daughter, Diane, rarely spoke to the press. She never sat on the board of the company and in the late Eighties she sold the last of her personal stock. Her children told her that their friends didn’t know that Walt Disney was a man: they only knew his name as a brand