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TIL Despite the fact that Jesse Owens won four gold medals during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, US President Franklin Roosevelt never congratulated or invited him to the White House. ‘Hitler didn’t snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me,’ Owens said

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JQk TIL George S. Patton participated in the first ever modern pentathlon Summer 1912 Olympics. In the pistol shooting competition, controversy came about because he said the holes in the paper were so big he shot through the some spot twice. It was credited as a miss.
4kRK6 TIL during five periods since 1990, Delaware has been the only U.S. state without any scheduled commercial airline flights. The periods were 1993 through 1998, 2000 to 2006, April 2008 to June 30, 2013, April 2015 and February 2021, and most recently from June 2022 to January 2023.
6ERkm TIL of the Battle of Karánsebes, where drunk Calvary yelling "Turk!" as a joke. The infantry believed them and opened fire, causing the officers to shout "Stop!" The artillery thought it was "Allah" and opened fire. Two days later the Ottoman army arrived, discovering the dead and wounded.
nKar TIL that the author of FIGHT CLUB came up with the foundation of the novel after being beaten up on a camping trip when he complained to nearby campers about the noise of their radio. When he returned to work, nobody would acknowledge his injuries instead asking things like “How was your weekend?”
Wk144 TIL about Sybil Ludington, a 16 year-old girl who rode to alert militia forces on the night of April 26, 1777, and who, reportedly, rode twice the distance as Paul Revere.