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TIL that the Olympics has handed out participation medals since the first Olympic Games.

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44g TIL The little pegman from Google Street View turns into an Astronaut if you drop him anywhere inside the Kennedy Space Center
nevd9 TIL For about 25 or 30 years Harlem was the largest urban black neighbourhood in the world. Of the 100 most influential African Americans, 41 of them came from Harlem
W7wZd TIL of the 5 known assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth II, the one that came closest to succeeding was attempted by a 17-year-old New Zealander, who shot at her with a .22 calibre rifle, but missed so badly that nobody even realised shots were fired.