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TIL that the copyright battle between the owners of Hello Kitty and Miffy ended after the Japanese Tsunami, when they agreed to immediately settle the case and donate their anticipated legal fees to the Tsunami Relief Effort.

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A9lx TIL Ostriches are the largest and heaviest birds in the world, they can outrun Leopards, their kick is strong enough to kill a Lion, male Ostriches can roar like a lion and they can see as far as 2.2 miles (3.5 km).
9wDKm TIL: That of the eight finalists from the 1988 Olympic men's 100m final, eventual bronze medalist Calvin Smith was the only athlete to never fail a drug test during his career. Smith later said: "I should have been the gold medalist."
neQ5r TIL the Roman Empire mined so much silver that at peak production they were mining 200 tonnes per year. This was 5 to 10 times larger than the combined amount of silver available to Medieval Europe & Abbasid Caliphate around 800 AD.
e05Vn TIL Secretariat has 263 US streets named after him - far more than any other athlete, human or otherwise.
x60OB TIL that the hawk-eye technology, used for video assistance in sports like soccer and tennis, was first implemented in a 2001 cricket match between England and Pakistan.