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TIL Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt refused an Olympic silver upgrade after the original medalist tested positive posthumously, wishing the late athlete's family to keep the medal out of respect.

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8978 TIL that the members of blink-182 (around the time of Enema Of The State) had incorporated under the name Poo Poo Butt, LLC. because “it would be funny to have our accountants, managers and attorneys having to say that over the phone every day.”
nexgr TIL that Colgate toothpaste is the only brand of anything in the whole world that is bought in over half of all households.
grlZ9 TIL the Beatles’ record sales helped fund research that led to the development of CT scans (computerized tomography)
1aVbr TIL in 2016, 104-year-old Jack Reynolds became the oldest person to get a tattoo, and a year later at 105-years-old, he became the oldest person to ride a rollercoaster.
gMRd9 TIL That the oldest “your mom” joke was found in Iraq in 1976 and is over 3500 years old