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TIL that the fourth-place through eighth-place finishers in an Olympic final event do not receive medals, but they do get paper “Olympic diplomas.”

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kOE54 TIL scientists observed the transition of unicellular yeast to multicellularity by repeatedly separating cells by gravity and collecting the cells settled at the bottom of the tubes. The cells eventually formed clusters and subsequent genetic mutations favored the clusters over the individual cells.
0bQp TIL that while awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice, David Friedland went scuba diving, faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops, the success of which helped him get caught.
VBg7Q TIL When we loose weight we breathe out most of the pounds
neR8P TIL that the US Air Force lost a nuclear bomb off the coast of Georgia and it was never recovered.
oRMor TIL the world’s largest cockroach is called “Megaloblatta longipennis”