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TIL many Olympic athletes are either broke or working 9–to-5 jobs outside of their training.

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odWA TIL when Sally Ride was preparing to launch as the first US woman in space in 1983, reporters asked questions like “Do you cry when things go wrong on the job?” and “Will the flight affect your reproductive organs?”
YRJG TIL the man known for filing more lawsuits than anyone in the world filed a lawsuit against the Guinness Book of World Records for naming him so
p0eO TIL that there is a phenomenon while we sleep known as Hypermnesia that seems to prove we have access to more memories while dreaming than in waking life.
xgwg TIL Woody Allen has consistently refused to attend the Oscars or acknowledge his Oscar wins. His publicly given reason is his standing engagement to play clarinet in a Monday night ensemble.
LkPPP TIL: Photos of an old stone cottage built between two gigantic boulders --images dismissed as a Photoshopped internet hoax shortly after appearing-- actually depict a real structure. The Boulder House stands at coords 41.488176, -8.067814