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Useless info from all sources is welcome. I love wisegeek's one per day factoids. Here's today's
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http://www.wisegeek.com/how-poor-was-the-brazilian-olympic-team-in-1932.htmDespite the Great Depression crippling countries around the world, the 1932 Summer Olympic Games went on in Los Angeles as scheduled, even though many countries could not afford to send athletes. Fewer than half of those who competed in Amsterdam in 1928 returned, and those who did travel to Los Angeles had to go to great lengths to be able to afford it. For example, Brazil's Olympians were forced to load a ship full of coffee beans to sell at ports along the way, just to be able to pay the $1 per athlete disembarkation tax charged at the Port of Los Angeles.
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