› added 10 months ago

31

TIL that San Marino has won three Olympic medals, all won at the 2020 Tokyo games. With 33,600 people, it is the smallest country by population to have won an Olympic medal.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

AlVd TIL men are 35% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than a woman is to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
R7Pa TIL roughly 14% of humans do not have a Palmaris longus muscle in their arm. Presence can be checked by touching pinkie to thumb and flexing the wrist.
e05nE TIL in Chinese/East Asian culture, the Tiger - not the Lion- is considered the King of all Animals. This is so because it is the biggest land-predator in East Asia, and- more importantly- the markings on its forehead resemble the Chinese character for King/Monarch: "王."
Brvdb TIL Rankin and Bass animators in Japan who worked on classic Christmas specials like Santa Clause is Coming to Town and Frosty the Snowman later were part of founding Studio Ghibli where they worked on My Neighbor Totoro and other classic Miyazaki films.
Bg16k TIL actor Northern Calloway, David on Sesame Street took over Hooper’s Store following Mr.H’s sudden passing, died at 41 of exhaustive psychosis, now more commonly called excited delirium syndrome, a “controversial condition” often retrospectively assigned to those who die under restraint in custody