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TIL Amarillo Slim was challenged by a Wimbledon champion to a game of ping pong. Slim agreed, provided he could provide the paddles. After practicing, Slim provided two frying pans, and easily won the match.

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m10By TIL of sawstop technology: It's patented by a single manufracturer who doesn't license its use to anyone else in the industry. For years, it was the only patent able to prevent table saw accidents and tried to use their patent rights to prevent making any similar safety system, with partial success
J1avB TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza
X0e4r TIL that in 1997, three men from Yemen sued NASA for landing on Mars.They claimed that they inherited the planet from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.
ZpKPo TIL Five US States - Delaware, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming - all lack a city over 100k population
XELdX TIL: Post Malone once tried out for a metal core band called Crown The Empire in 2010 when he was just 15 years old. He was auditioning to be their guitar player but one of his strings broke and he did not make the band. He was in a high school band playing similar music.