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TIL the pre-printed championship apparel made for the losing team of major sporting events like the Super Bowl are shipped overseas to disaster areas or impoverished nations.

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E1ewd TIL the USS John C. Stennis was named after someone who supported racial segregation and signed the Southern Manifesto.
QJ5Lk TIL that Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner who discovered prions, an infectious protein in the brain, was attacked by both the scientific establishment and the media when he presented his ideas due to the thinking that an infectious protein would be impossible.
m1KXp TIL: England had a trade deficit with China over tea, so they grew opium in India and illegally sold it in China, leading to the Opium Wars
p8RXG TIL Walt Disney was so fixed on having semi-retired actress Jane Darwell appear in Mary Poppins as the bird woman that he personally drove to her retirement home to ask her after she originally refused
9YOAG TIL: The Pronunciation of Matt Groening's Name is "Gray-ning." I have always heard and pronounced it as "Grow-ning," but then I was watching an interview with Phil LaMarr, and he pronounced it "Gray-ning." I looked it up, and sure enough, that's how it's pronounced.