Your Favorite Olympians: Where Are They Now?

Katie Ledecky

Katie Ledecky debuted at the Olympics at the 2012 Games in London. She returned in 2016 and took home four gold medals, one silver, and two world records. That same year, she joined the Stanford University swim team as a freshman. She is still competing. 

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The More You Know

  • Nearly 15 percent of Los Angeles is used as a parking lot.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
  • About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine.
  • The largest known living organism is an aspen grove.
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