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TIL, cold or rainy weather cannot make you sick

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W7YKX TIL that the speed of gold medalists in the men’s 100m freestyle swim has nearly doubled between the first and the most recent Summer Olympics, from 1 minute and 22.2 seconds at the 1896 games in Athens to 47.02 seconds at the 2020 games in Tokyo
x6jWg TIL that when future Czar Nicholas II visited Japan in 1891, he was nearly assassinated by a Japanese policeman who swung a sword at his face. And the Tsarevich came back to Russia with a dragon tattoo.
OGZ7Y Today I learned that there is a Microsoft Excel World Championship where people compete based on their Excel formula skills and it’s (like?) an eSport
KY106 TIL about Bagdad, Arizona, which is one of the last remaining company towns in the US. Freeport-McMoRan owns all of the housing and commercial buildings in Bagdad
Jprv TIL there’s a brown bear on California’s state flag but the last brown bear in California was killed in 1922