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TIL of Shirley Babashoff, American Olympic swimmer who acquired the nickname ‘Surly Shirley’ for her constant accusations that E German athletes were doping. Turns out she was right.

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4XmQg TIL Anchorage, Alaska is larger than Rhode Island & almost an equivalent distance from both New York City & Tokyo. Anchorage lies 9 1⁄2 hours from 90% of the industrialized world.
wZRJ TIL of a British soldier who fought in both world wars, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, survived two plane crashes, tunneled out of a POW camp, bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them, and said of WWI, “Frankly, I had enjoyed the War.”
WvQ4 TIL that the NYPD uses taxi cabs as undercover police cars.
R5pJQ TIL that Barry Goldwater and John F. Kennedy were close friends. They planned to hold a series of Lincoln-Douglas style debates across the country in the 1964 presidental election. Goldwater was greatly dissapointed at Kennedy's assassination and that his opponent would not be Kennedy.
d8apE TIL planned obsolescence is illegal in France; it is a crime to intentionally shorten the lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. In early 2018, French authorities used this law to investigate reports that Apple deliberately slowed down older iPhones via software updates.