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TIL of Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who took third in the 1968 Olympics and the third athlete in the iconic black power photo. He was shunned in his home country from that moment on for his often unnoticed presence in the photograph.

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pwnQ TIL that the widow of Ray Kroc, who founded McDonald’s, gave National Public Radio $235 million. This is “the largest monetary gift ever to a cultural institution.”
WkpL4 TIL Chickens lay one or sometimes more unfertilised or fertilised eggs a day until they have collected a clutch. If you continually collect eggs daily they will continually lay eggs because their goal is to have a clutch.
0wWDM TIL Inés Ramírez Pérez, a woman from Mexico. A mother of eight kids who had no medical training, performed a successful Caesarean section on herself. With 12 hours of continual pain she used a kitchen knife and three glasses of hard liqour whilst her husband was drinking at a bar.
e07nn TIL that the set of Sesame Street was intentionally made to look like a poor inner city block, complete with trash and decay, because the original target audience was inner city children and the producers wanted it to feel familiar
A5nn TIL Brandon Routh, who starred in Superman Returns, and Jason Momoa, who will play Aquaman in upcoming DC films, are from the same small Iowa town, went to the same highschool, and played on the soccer team together