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TIL that in in the 1970s professional 10 pin bowlers made twice as much as NFL players.

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1GdV TIL, In 200 BC, when Sparta was at the height of its power there were 20 slaves for every citizen.
09P1 TIL that soft drinks used to be segregated. Coca Cola was marketed to white people, and Pepsi was marketed to black people
KxYw TIL When asked why nerve gas was not used in Normandy, Hermann Göring said the Nazis were dependent upon horse-drawn transport to move supplies to their combat units, and had never been able to devise a gas mask that horses could tolerate
455o TIL Farmers forcibly bypass the adolescent years of fruit trees by attaching a mature branch to a newly planted stem. The process known as grafting can also be used to grow two plants together such as tomatoes and potatoes on one plant. http://ift.tt/2rGjQpu
gr5aA TIL in 1923 the German Newspaper Vorwärts lost a libel trial brought by Adolf Hitler. They had claimed he was funded by "American Jews and Henry Ford."