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TIL that Small Business Saturday was created and promoted by American Express.

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w8eP TIL that After Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchhill stated in his diary that the war had just been won.
AxDo TIL in 2005, a German television show was produced in which twelve male competitors donated their sperm to be sent to a lab in Cologne. At the lab, three doctors then observed the sperm as they “raced” toward an egg. The man with the fastest sperm won a new red Porsche.
JNx4 TIL in 2010 a Xbox Live user was banned because he declared Fort Gay as his Hometown. Microsoft apologised later, because the place is real.
8e9VG TIL Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura in the TV show Heroes, founded the developer that made the game Outer Wilds.
P1MML TIL that a Florida man conducted a hoax for ten years, starting in 1948, that a 4.5m-high penguin was visiting Clearwater Beach. A biologist suggested that the tracks were genuine on account of how they matched animal behaviour. The hoax was revealed in 1988.