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TIL Art competitions were part of the Olympics from 1912–1948. In fact, Monaco won their only Olympic medal in 1924, in architecture.

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R7n1a TIL FIFA 14 was released on the PS2, PS3, and PS4. This is the only game whose initial release spans three console generations.
AAb4 TIL that many North American pilots refer to the female voice-warnings of certain aircrafts as “Bitching Betty”
OogJe TIL that in the 1940s President Johnson,at the time a Congressman, used to drive around with a snake in his trunk because he believed black people were scared of snakes. He used to go to fuel stations get served by black guys and make them open the trunk and he was almost beaten with a tire iron
ADjMa TIL there's a material called FOGBANK that's used by the US Department of Energy that's so top secret and compartmentalized, that the government once actually "forgot" how to make it due to a lack of actual records and dwindling institutional knowledge
0wOp5 TIL - After Joseph Stalin's Death, his successor embarked on a program of 'De-Stalinization' - systematically reversing most of Stalin's policies while in office, to end the "era of the cult of personality"