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

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0dmBA TIL that the Blériot XI is the world's oldest flyable plane having first been built in 1909.
6EbD7 TIL Yuan Shikai was elected the first official president of the Republic of China, and was active in establishing modern industrial, judicial and educational systems as well as unifying the currency. As a young man, Yuan was also sent to Korea as supreme adviser on Korean government policies
W7N0o TIL I learned that the US bombing of Cambodia in the 1970s was requested / approved by the Cambodian government
km44 TIL: The USS Cyclops, which went missing in 1918 during WWI remains the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat, and the fate of the ship is unknown still to this day.
xW4B TIL that left-handed sugar exists. It is an artificial, mirrored variant of regular glucose which tastes exactly the same but can’t be metabolized as normal. As a result, it contains very few calories, can be eaten by diabetics and doesn’t promote tooth decay.