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TIL that a Fiddle is the same as a Violin

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8ewvb TIL in 1979 basketball legend Magic Johnson turned down an endorsement deal with Nike offering him 100,000 shares of stock and $1 for every pair of shoes sold in favor of a deal with Converse that paid him $100,000 annually. In declining the Nike deal Johnson missed out on over $5 billion.
nYdo TIL… In 1954 the CIA deposed a democratically elected Guatemalan president and replaced him with a dictator to save investments in a banana company.
Lko0m TIL Stephen Hawking liked "The Theory Of Everything" so much that he allowed the filmmakers to use his trademarked computerized voice on it. He called the film "broadly true" and emailed the filmmakers that there were certain points when he thought he was watching himself, which left him tearful.
wEBM TIL No pixar movie has ever made less than $150million domestically
VVgZ TIL that because of Japan’s increasing senior citizen population, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.