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TIL Jesse Owens never received a congratulations telegram for winning the 1936 Olympics from President Roosevelt, but received something from Hitler

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neadW TIL under European law, all wine bottles bearing the name „champagne“ must be bottled within 100 miles of the champagne region of France. Any other „champagne“ is considered sparkling wine and must be labeled as such. It also must be hand-picked grapes pressed in a closed environment.
kODa5 TIL in 1948, when Britain started their publicly funded National Health Service (NHS), the American Medical Association (AMA) ran an unprecedented campaign to turn public opinion against a national health service in USA, which had wide spread support at the end of World War 2.
ADDgx TIL Gary Webb, the reporter from the San Jose Mercury News who first broke the story of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade, was found dead with "two gunshot wounds to the head." His death, in 2004, was ruled a suicide.
ADxG4 TIL Nike dropped Allyson Felix's 7 yr old sponsorship because she asked that she shouldn't be punished if her performance dropped due to childbirth. 10 months later she won a gold medal breaking Usain Bolt's world record for most gold medals in world championships history, with her daughter watching
Y7E8x TIL of Turki bin Abdulaziz al-Jasser - a journalist that ran a twitter account for informing Saudi citizens about local corruption and human rights. He was publicly executed for these 'crimes' 3 weeks ago