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TIL a married Czech couple born on the same day both won gold medals at the 1952 Olympics
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Submitted March 3, 2026 at 06:35PM by Verbal-Gerbil
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The Game Magazine
Emil Zatopek and Dana Zatopkova: Historic Husband-Wife Olympic Gold in 1952 - The Game Magazine
Tales of Olympics: Andy Murray takes a look at the story behind the Olympic power couple. Both athletes in the Czech team in Helsinki’s 1952 Olympic Games, Dana Zatopek won her first gold in the women's javelin throw, just one hour after her husband won the…
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TIL the Royal Navy trained WWII fighter direction officers using ice cream tricycles fitted with radios and compasses to simulate aerial combat. Instructors noted students pedaled much faster than ordered whenever a (female) WRNS member was piloting an attacking bomber trike
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Submitted March 3, 2026 at 07:38PM by SteO153
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The Beginnings of Naval Fighter Direction - Chapter 5 of Radar and the Fighter Directors
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TIL that Goerge Wendt, who played Norm on the TV show Cheers, was expelled from Notre Dame for a 0.00 GPA
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Submitted March 3, 2026 at 10:11PM by JoeyZasaa
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TIL about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. All 36 men of the study lost 25% of their body weight eating 1,560 calories daily, proving that a calorie deficit alone causes weight loss. These starvation conditions produced a severe physical and mental decline in the subjects.
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Submitted March 3, 2026 at 10:23PM by ValuableBerry1628
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TiL Women are less likely to receive bystander CPR than men due to fears of 'inappropriate touching'
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Submitted March 3, 2026 at 11:32PM by ciderandtoast
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'My life is worth more than my boobs': Women are less likely than men to receive CPR in public
People are less likely to give a woman CPR due to fears of hurting her or being accused of inappropriate touching. One Australian CPR provider is trying to change that by putting breasts on training mannequins.
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TIL Charles Darwin was invited on the HMS Beagle voyage as a companion to the captain, Robert FitzRoy, who feared the isolation of a five-year journey might drive him to suicide
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Submitted March 3, 2026 at 05:17PM by 23lucasd
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TIL that the descendants of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who is credited as the founding father of Pakistan, have remained in India after the partition of British colonial India into India and Pakistan in 1947, after his only child, Dina Wadia's decision to stay back in India for her marital life.
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Submitted March 3, 2026 at 09:40PM by SatoruGojo232
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TIL about William Price, a Welsh physician and Neo Druid who after the death of his infant son Iesu Grist in 1884, performed one of the first modern cremations in the UK, burning the body on a pyre. He was arrested though acquitted as their was no law against cremation. He was 84...his wife was 18.
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Submitted March 3, 2026 at 10:46PM by johnsmithoncemore
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TIL about Parakaryon myojinensis, a single-celled organism that is apparently distinct from all prokaryotes and eukaryotes. It is the only known species with a completely unknown position within the tree of life.
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Submitted March 4, 2026 at 02:57AM by tornedron_
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TIL that, unlike his father Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin was a staunch British loyalist who went into exile after the Revolutionary War and died in London in 1813.
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Submitted March 4, 2026 at 04:54AM by Advanced_Narwhal_949
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TIL that famed sheriff Buford Pusser who lost his wife in a supposed retaliatory attack in 1967 and inspired the 1973 movie “Waling Tall” is now believed by investigators to be his wife’s murderer after an autopsy was finally performed on her in 2024.
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Submitted March 4, 2026 at 05:26AM by Advanced_Narwhal_949
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TIL: in the 1920s, composer Maurice Ravel wrote an experimental work consisting only of one very long, gradual crescendo. He was astonished and displeased that the work, "Boléro", became a massive success. When a listener shouted "Rubbish!" at the premiere, he said "That old lady got the message!"
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Submitted March 4, 2026 at 06:00AM by VegemiteSucks
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