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TIL that six players have a medal in both the summer and the Winter Olympics

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yP9v TIL the screenwriter of Alien (1979), Dan O'Bannon, credited his experiences with Crohn’s disease for inspiring the chest-busting scene.
R7En8 TIL that in 2013 the United States bombed the island of Guam with 2,000 dead mice stuffed with painkillers to kill the Brown Tree Snake which is an invasive species on the island. The snake got there by accident in the 1950s on a shipping vessel.
rNLyx TIL Coca-Cola 'invented' Santa Claus for marketing purposes
xVdlD TIL The drinking age in the U.S. is 21 because of a federal law requiring states to make that the minimum age to purchase and consume alcohol or lose up to 10% of annual highway funding.
6mr7 TIL that The Shawshank Redemption’s director and writer, Frank Darabont, was offered $2.5 million from Rob Reiner to let him write and direct it instead, and cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Darabont refused, saying that this was his “chance to do something really great.”