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TIL: The ceremonial podium from the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was used as an execution site during the area's warfare in the 1990s. Restorers working after the '92-'95 Siege of Sarajevo patched-up the scarred cement and filled in the many bullet holes.

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OG6nX TIL the reason why many newspapers names end with "Post" is because in medieval times after the town crier yelled out the news to the mostly illiterate people, he would then "post" the written news in a public place
OoDDg TIL The Queen of England's guard wear tall bear skin hats because at the Battle of Waterloo, English troops took them as a trophy from France. They were worn by Napoleon's elite guard, which England routed during the Battle.
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KO7bG TIL - Queen Elizabeth II ordered the guest rooms of her palace to be stripped of valuables before the President of Romania visited in 1978 because she feared he and his wife would steal from her.
BrZYe TIL that NASA's Spirit Mars rover was meant to operate for 92 days. It ended up operating for 2,269 days, after which a dust storm blocked off its solar panels.