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TIL Space Invaders was so popular in Japan it caused a national coin shortage

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oRVp8 TIL George Foreman won an Olympic Gold Medal after boxing for only a year and a half and with only 20 amateur fights
NjEe TIL The band Creedence Clearwater Revival were all from San Francisco and had never even visited Louisiana or the Bayou. Their accents were simply exaggerated for effect.
p8Z8Q TIL A beekeeper in South Australia taught his Labrador to sniff out an infectious disease that wipes out bee colonies then invented a dog beekeeper suit for Bazz the Beekeeper.
BrXy TIL Wayne’s World was responsible for starting the phrase “that’s what she said” and the “not” joke
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