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TIL Adidas does not sponsor players who are Scientologists

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OYkR TIL that not only were there Kings and Popes in the Middle Ages, there were Antikings and Antipopes.
8e60P TIL the 1970s musical sitcom 'The Partridge Family' was inspired by the real-life 1960s family band, The Cowsills, who sang the hit song 'The Rain, The Park, And Other Things', a.k.a. "The Flower Girl".
oBbKo TIL that a company called Tweeter had its most active stock trading day in its history five years after it went out of business, after traders mistook their stock for that of Twitter, causing the price of the defunct company's shares to rise 1,000%
YpXRr TIL that schools in Philadelphia went on lockdown in 2013 after a teacher misheard The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song lyrics as "shooting some people outside of school," instead of "shooting some b-ball."
xAaD TIL the current Earl of Sandwich owns and founded a chain of 24 sandwich shops, the first of which opened in Walt Disney World