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TIL from 1912 - 1948 Art competitions were a part of the Olympic Games, reaturing: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture

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xvQg TIL in 1976 a film crew went to the haunted house in a California amusement park to shoot footage for a popular tv show. They discovered a hanging body that they thought was a mannequin… turns out it was a real person who had been dead and circulating in various carnivals for over sixty years
b9oD9 TIL That Marvel comics was printing comics with Captain America fighting nazis before America had entered WW2 thus getting them accused as war provokers.
QNjnd TIL Archaeological evidence of the Saluki dates back at least 5,000 years. The Saluki was first bred in the Fertile Crescent and used by nomadic tribes to run down game animals.
9wvE6 TIL Yamaha has been one of the leading piano manufacturers since the 1950's. They began building engines for propellors and airplanes during World War II. After the war, Yamaha used the new technology to build their first motorcycle engine, thus introducing Yamaha Motors to Yamaha Music.
lVL7 TIL Wolverines are being trained to rescue people from avalanches.