Gold medals are actually made of chocolate! (JK.)
You've probably seen a million, billion, gazillion photos of Olympians biting down on their new medals.
Yum, tasty snack...?
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And it's not a new phenomenon, either.
This is the 1991 Great Britain track-and-field team.
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