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TIL The Baby Boomer Generation is also known as the "Me Generation"

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KOyr9 TIL: The voice actor for Jar Jar Binks attempted suicide as a result of decades long harassment and death threats
69mvQ TIL about Abebe Bikila. The first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, he won gold in the marathon at the 1960 Olympics while running barefoot, and again in 1964, making him the first athlete to successfully defend an Olympic marathon title. In 1969, he was paralysed and never walked again
XW6 TIL IKEA is an acronym, a charity, and depicted the first gay couple in an ad (and more).
jN8bp TIL of Cerbalus aravaensis, a beautiful huntsman spider whose remaining habitat consists of just 1.2 square miles of land (3km sq)
MeM80 TIL Norwegian police banned a team of Finnish divers from a cave in 2014 after 2 people died. In secret, the divers pulled their 2 dead friends to the surface & fulfilled a promise to a widow of one man. The illegal rescue took 27 divers & 101 hrs in frigid water, using about 1-ton of equip.