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TIL George Forman made more money off of his grill than from his entire boxing career

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KNrG TIL British audiences for The Last Airbender fell into laughing fits because of the constant use of the word “bender”, a slang term for gay people.
yQ6NV TIL that due to a personnel shortage as a result of WWII, for one NFL season the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Steagles.
LQk8d TIL about the HMS Victoria, a 340’ battleship that collided with another ship in 1893 and sank. But when it sank it slammed into the seafloor with so much force that 3/4 of the ship is sticking out of the seafloor at a 90 degree angle
WkDBd TIL The original Duck Tales Theme was kept and translated for almost every international version of the show. The only outlier was South Korea's season one theme.
7Rdb TIL 72% of Japanese people view Russia unfavorably, making Japan the most anti-Russian nation in the world.