Your Favorite Olympians: Where Are They Now?

Simone Biles Then

Simone Biles' talent was seen immediately by everybody watching her compete in the 2016 Olympic Games. She quickly became a household name as she took home gold in the team event, the individual all-around competition, the vault, and the floor exercise! She set an American record for most gold medals won at a single Olympic Games.

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The More You Know

  • Only ¼ of the Sahara Desert is sandy.
  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
  • Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
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