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TIL art competitions used to be a part of the Olympics Games.

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xpPo TIL That for about 5 months in 2008 it was 100% legal to abandon your teenage child by bringing them to a hospital and driving off. During this period over 35 teenagers were abandoned by their parents.
7JbL TIL in 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around the Earth, in order to serve as a man-made ionosphere. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
QJmV6 TIL: The "Phantom Vibration Syndrome" is a condition in which people mistakenly think their phone vibrates in their pocket. It affects 90% (9/10 people).
pY8P4 TIL that in 2021 more than 1/3 of the shark attacks in the world occurred in Florida and, of the attacks in Florida, more than 1/2 occurred around Daytona Beach.
Wkow4 TIL that "Louis Le Prince" was actually the first person to invent a motion picture camera, 3 years before Thomas Edison, but was not able to publicly showcase the device as when he was going to retrieve it, he entered a train and was never seen again.