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TIL Wilma Rudolph had polio as an infant and was unable to walk properly until she was 11. For several years, her family had to massage her legs four times a day, and she had to wear a metal brace. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in an Olympic event.

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NYl8 TIL that sushi is meant to be eaten by hand, rather than with chopsticks.
R5d74 TIL that Winston Churchill loved cats, while Adolph Hitler was said to despise them.
Z8ado TIL that Anne Frank's older sister, Margot also kept a diary, but no trace of it has ever been found.
Bga0L TIL An American Bootlegger, Murderer and Prison Escapist named Joseph Henry Loveless was murdered in 1916 with his dismembered body left in a cave in Utah until it was discovered in 1979. Only to be positively identified in 2019.
5Vy7r TIL in 2010 Sam Ballard was drinking with several friends when he was dared to eat a slug that had begun to crawl across his friend's concrete patio. After he ate it, he'd find out the infected slug had given him rat lungworm disease, which put him into a year-long coma & ultimately took his life.