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TIL that American football was invented in Canada

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kO0JE TIL In 1975 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to USA's Howard Temin for his research on cancer. During his acceptance speech in Sweden, he called out some present -- including a Queen and other royalty -- for smoking. He insisted that the ashtray on the laureates' table be removed.
R7Aw TIL the English name for the color Orange is named after the Orange fruit, and the color was originally, “Geoluard”
OG9BR TIL that Abraham Lincoln was so convinced that he was going to lose the election of 1864 that he asked Frederick Douglass to lead scouts into the South to free as many slaves as possible before the new president took office.
DQ5pJ TIL Potatoes 'permanently reduced conflict' in Europe for about 200 years
XEypj TIL a web developer bought the domain name milk.com in 1994, then refused to sell any part of it to industry for less than $10 million. In 2021 the domain has still not been sold.