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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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9QEG TIL That a firefighter was killed during 9/11 because someone jumped from one of top floors and hit him
OJ1R TIL that when astronaut Ron McNair was 9 he attempted to check out books from a segregated library the librarian called the cops and his mother. The police however supported his right to read.
E1B87 TIL of 2015 Book [Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War] by American Susan Southard. It recounts the lifelong experience of five teenage hibakusha (survivors ) after the bombing of Nagasaki in WWII
D17Pe TIL that the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This was one of the earliest known accounts of biological warfare.
XYE TIL there was a Snake Plissken television series planned, but it was turned down by all the major networks for being “too dark and bleak.”