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TIL Olympic athletes who finish in the top eight in an event are awarded an Olympic diploma

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oBVBo TIL Skin from the Tilapia fish is used to treat burn victims in Brazil. The treatment proved to be effective enough that veterinarians across California used The fish skin to treat the animals that were burned during the wildfires
epkWb TIL: The creator of the GTA Franchise also created Lemmings
ADr6x TIL that some dolphins form boy bands to that sing together to attract females and these "bands" can stick together for decades
OoQbL TIL that in 1990, TV Asahi, a Japanese TV station launched a fundraising effort among its viewers to raise money to plant cherry trees in the newly reunified Berlin. Close to a million euros were collected.
DQ01Y TIL Nick Cave, the musician, wrote a draft script for Gladiator 2 in which Maximus is resurrected for eternity; sent to kill Jesus Christ and his disciples; fights in the Crusades, World War II, and Vietnam; and works at the Pentagon in the present day. The script was rejected and scrapped.