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TIL that mountain unicycling is an actual sport

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woVM8 TIL Most of the iodine in dairy comes from iodine-based sanitizers used to clean the cow teats between milking. This residual iodine then seeps into the milk.
GAMO1 TIL the movie '13 Going On 30' was renamed to 'Suddenly 30' in Australia because distributors thought Australians wouldn't understand the original title.
Brvay TIL that St. Claire of Assisi, who died in 1253 A.D., was named the Patron Saint of Television by Pope Pius XII in 1958, based on an incident in which she claimed the moving image and sound of a Catholic Mass had been miraculously projected on the wall of her room when she was too sick to attend.
9Y1Nm TIL that when Hayao Miyazaki he won an Oscar for Spirited Away in 2003, he didn't attend the ceremony, telling a reporter for the LA Times that he "didn't want to visit a country that was bombing Iraq." His producer "shut [him] up and did not allow [him] to say that", but apparently agreed privately
b9YVZ TIL that the aviation distress call "Mayday" was created in 1923 and derives from the French "m'aidez" or "help me"