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TIL that the NFL was paid $400 million by Microsoft to use their tablets, but the announcers keep calling them iPads.

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xV7Vw TIL Lillian Asplund was the third to last living survivor of the Titanic disaster, and was the last survivor with firsthand memories of the event. With her death in 2006, the Titanic officially faded from living memory and solely into history.
5YyR9 TIL The Song "Ballad of the 20th Maine" which tells the story of the decorated civil war unit, is the state anthem of Maine.
Xpo8 TIL there is a horror movie about an Orca who exacts revenge on the crew that murdered his mate. The actual Orcas in the film were a mated pair named Nepo and Yaka. When Nepo died 3 years later of pneumonia, Yaka stayed while he took his final breaths. She refused to leave him.
GANl1 TIL on October 2 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737 sideswiped a Boeing 707 and then collided into a Boeing 757 at China’s former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. It resulted in 128 people being killed and the Captain of the 707 getting injured.
MewlB TIL the opposite of an oxymoron is called a tautology