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TIL that Ireland’s first ever olympic medal (silver) was for painting

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a8Ny9 TIL about The Starlight Barking, the official sequel to 101 Dalmatians where humans are asleep, dogs get telepathic and flight powers and are invited by a Star Dog to go to space with it to a oid nuclear war in the future.
ZY9D TIL that until 1974, banks could (and usually would) refuse to issue a credit card to a woman unless she was married and her husband co-signed for the card. A divorced woman was considered too much of a risk because she “couldn’t keep a marriage under control.”
oRDP8 TIL that NYC architects once made a proposal for an upside down skyscraper, which would hang upside down suspended by air cables that would be attached to an asteroid.
womG6 TIL there used to be a country called “Republic of Dahomey”
mx8gM TIL that blackjack basic strategy (the optimal strategy for winning) was developed by four US army engineers, who called themselves the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In 2008 they were inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame.