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TIL that FIFA funded a movie about the origins of FIFA itself, called "United Passions". It was also a major box-office bomb, losing $26.8 million worldwide, and is considered to be one of the worst films of all time

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Rkn8 TIL that composer Charles Ives proposed that a 20th Amendment should be added to the U.S. Constitution that allowed people to submit legislative proposals to Congress. Members of Congress would then cull the proposals, selecting 10 each year as referendums for popular vote by the nation’s electorate
JYmEQ TIL Paul Van Doren, one of the founders of shoe company Vans, dropped out of school at the age of 14, when he was in the eighth grade. Interested in horses, he went to the race tracks every day. His mother then insisted that he get a job in a shoe factory.
D1Ene TIL that it is considered bad luck to play a trick after midday on April Fool's day and that if you do play a joke after midday, you are considered the April fool yourself!
mD5y TIL that Abraham Lincoln suffered from a lifelong “melancholy,” a condition we now call clinical depression. His suffering was so severe, that his community had to put him under a “suicide watch.”
p8Qg4 TIL that pink Himalayan sea salt is actually mined from mountains in Pakistan from a sea that existed hundreds of millions of years ago