“Today I Learned”: 30 Interesting Facts You Might Not Know About The World (New Posts)

Not enough bronze

There isn't enough room in the Olympic Committee Headquarters for that

But then we’d immortalize cheating, everyone would want to do it.

how about doing it with the politicians?

This is how you start a global bronze shortage

Each year, no matter the location, would be funded by Russia no matter if the athletes compete under "Russia" or "The Russian Olympic Federation" what with the state sanctioned doping and all that. (Seriously, watch the documentary Icarus on Netflix. It's really well done.)

With the prices of materials these days, I don't know if even an Olympic athlete could afford to pay such a fine.

There wouldn’t be room for the stadium.

That will drive the price of bronze through the roof.

Maybe it is?

Don't forget the inscription - Seven Times Winner Tour de France.

Most cheating in the ancient Olympics was related to bribery or foul play. One example - In 388 B.C., during the 98th Olympics, a boxer named Eupolus of Thessaly bribed three of his opponents to let him win. All four men were heavily fined, and up went six bronze statues of Zeus, four of which had inscriptions about the scandal and a warning to future athletes.

Bill received (or publicly announced, I forget which) his diagnosis while filming a special Bake Off episode for Stand Up 2 Cancer (a charity in the vein of Comic Relief, but separate). Having the cancer story be one of the people we'd just watched do some lovely cakes, instead of being (sorry if this comes across a bit heartless) an unfortunate stranger was the gut punch that started the effect.

Hear Hear , always brightened my day up

So you are saying stuff you buy on open market can prevent prostate cancer? Links to relevant peer reviewed studies thanks.

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I hope he has his affairs in order, then. My mother is dead because of people like you.

And he's a former nuclear submarine Naval officer too! He's even had a sub named after him, the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23).

Don't suppose he could point Trump in the right direction could he?

Indeed

Racist and anti-semite too. Is considered worst (least effective) president in postwar US.

And he overcame it and became a president.

Right he hosted the shah and Suharto and claimed he loved human rights o wait he’s just a lying shitbag like every other president

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Carter is among the worse presidents we've ever had.

It's hard to get better than David Bowie and Freddie Mercury together

If the invitation is still open, I'll gladly do it!

The CCC actually had quite a few "camp dogs", a since a lot of the guys in the CCC were outdoorsmen, they sometimes brought their own dogs along. The CCC even build kennels in Alaska for the Alaskan rangers' dogs. There are some really neat pics of various CCC groups floating around out there, and lots of those pics have dogs in them!

All those trees and only one dog?

Who plants a dog?? Those monsters!

My grandfather, as well.

Rightfully so. Planting trees and developping national parks is a wonderful endeavour.

It was created to provide jobs for out-of-work men during the Great Depression. Once we entered the war, there was no more need for the program.

I've never met anyone who thought this, but to be fair it's not exactly brought up in conversation every day.