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This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"knud\"The Strange Story of the First Olympian Disqualified for Doping<\/a><\/p>\n

Olympians have been bending (and occasionally breaking) the rules in an effort to give themselves an edge over the competition since the games began. Despite this, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) only started testing for performance enhancing substances in 1968, and only seem to have really started taking the issue seriously in the 1990s. As for the 1968 Games, despite that a large percentage of Olympians are thought to have been using performance enhancing drugs, they only managed to catch and disqualify one guy. What dangerous substance did he take to get himself disqualified? He drank two beers before an event, resulting in him becoming the first person to be disqualified for \u201cdoping\u201d.\u00a0To really drive home how ingrained using performance enhancers is in Olympic culture, and to highlight how endemic is was before the IOC began…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"now-you-know-answers1-340x286\"Do Olympic Medalists Receive Cash Prizes With Their Medals?<\/a><\/p>\n

Some are awarded cash prizes by their respective local Olympic committees or governments. Also, sometimes private businessmen will match values given, such as in Armenia where a man donated $700,000 to be added to the cash given by the Olympic committee for medals. Another similar thing occurred for Belarus athletes during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Those Belarusians who won any medal in the Olympics that year not only got a cash prize ($100,000 for gold, $50,000 for silver, and $30,000 for bronze), but also were given free meat and sausage for life from a local major meat company, Belatmeat. In the end, though, typically any cash prizes and the decision on whether to award them each Olympics is decided by the local Olympic Committees in each country and generally all the cash for the bonuses comes from these committees.\u00a0As to the amounts of these prizes, the United States Olympic Committee…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Howard_Hughes\"That Time Howard Hughes Purchased a TV Station to Have the 1960s’ Version of Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n

Howard Hughes, the legendarily reclusive billionaire business magnate, is a man about whom much has been written and most people know at least a little bit about. However, as we did when we covered JP Morgan\u2019 giant, purple, knobbly nose<\/a> that he largely managed to keep hidden from the world, today we\u2019re going to focus on a lesser known aspect of the life of Howard Hughes-specifically the time he bought an entire TV station so that he could watch his favourite movies whenever he wanted.\u00a0Known for his eccentricity as much as he is his countless achievements in the fields of business, aviation and entertainment, towards the end of his life Hughes famously moved to Las Vegas and effectively became something of a hermit.\u00a0As the story goes…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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