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TIL Galileo’s middle finger is up for display at a museum in Florence, Italy

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ablb TIL that after the US defeated favored France for the rugby gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics, French fans invaded the field. Police and French players defended the Americans from the crowd. Boos and hisses interrupted the US national anthem at the medal ceremony.
kJW9e TIL Joe Delaney, running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, died while trying to rescue three children from drowning in a pond.
ne5bb TIL that the president of Taiwan is an unmarried, childless woman whose cats featured prominently in her campaign. She is one of the 1st women elected to lead an Asian state without coming from a political dynasty, and to govern a Chinese-speaking nation since Empress Wu Zetian in the 8th century.
wK08 TIL If all the gold suspended in the world’s seawater were mined, each person on Earth could have about 9 pounds of gold.
pov8 TIL that a clock at a university in New Zealand that runs on changes in air pressure and temperature has been running nearly continuously without being wound since its construction in 1864, stopping only when it needed to be cleaned or moved.