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TIL Shun Fujimoto won a gold medal in Olympic Gymnastics against the USSR despite having a broken leg during his performance.

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DQwVY TIL Michael Nesmith from the Monkees produced the video for Lionel Richie's hit All Night Long
NBaN TIL the Powerpuff Girls was originally a college project done by Craig McCracken known as the “Whoopass Girls”. Instead of Chemical X, the Professor gave them an open “Can of Whoopass”.
x8o7 TIL Isaac Newton thought he could turn water into gold, and died eating mercury.
XyNR TIL that a man flew three times on the Space Shuttle without being an astronaut. Charles Walker got turned down by NASA but found a space-related job at McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas paid NASA $40,000 per flight for Walker to operate its experiments on the shuttle as a payload specialist.
0w5PL TIL that Poland's official reason for not participating in the crusades was that there was no beer or mead in the Holy Land