The First athlete to get disqualified at the Olympics for drug use was a Swedish modern pentathlete named Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, who allegedly had only "two beers" to calm his nerves before the pistol shooting event. He caused the Swedish team to get disqualified at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and the team had to return their bronze medals.

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On average, Men receive prison sentences that are 63% higher than females who have been convicted of the same crime.

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It looks like 2 pictures put together but it's just the Metro of Moscow.

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​​Singer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his own father the day before his birthday. He used a gun Marvin gifted him.

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Ernest Hemingway survived a mortar attack, anthrax, pneumonia, amoebic dysentery, diabetes, two plane crashes, three car accidents, second-degree burns, a ruptured kidney and liver, and a broken skull.

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In 2015, a Canadian teenager named Anya Pogharian invented a cheap and portable dialysis machine as part of her high school science fair project. The 17-year-old built a functional dialysis machine for just $500. At the time, a dialysis machine typically cost around $30,000.

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Until the early 19th century, it was completely common for doctors to place their ear directly on a patient's exposed breast in order to listen to the heartbeat. The stethoscope had not been invented yet.

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Sprite can break down acetaldehyde, a metabolite of ethanol, making it an effective hangover-curing drink.

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A 46-year-old dyslexic man named Benjamin Bolger has earned 14 degrees so far in his life. He claims to be the second-most credentialed perpetual student in modern history.

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Most infections from swimming pools and hot tubs are caused by cryptosporidium; a diarrheal disease produced by microscopic parasites that are released from someone's anus and consumed orally by other swimmers.

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An Extreme close-up of the Sun. The most detailed picture of a star ever taken!

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August 1st is National Girlfriends Day.

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There's no antidote for a blue-ringed octopus bite.

However, if you can get to a ventilator to help you breathe and wait out the 15 hours of paralysis, your muscles will start working again and you'll survive.

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Drug-sniffing dogs are wrong more often than they are right

They have a real-world accuracy rate of about 44%.

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