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BrOgk TIL about Cliff Young. An Australian farmer who, at 61 years old, won an "Ultramarathon", running for over 5 days without stopping.
Bxvr TIL that there was once a competitor to the US Postal Service, called The American Letter Mail Company, which was adored by the public for driving down the cost of mailing parcels and letters but was made illegal because it threatened the ability of the USPS to charge monopoly prices.
BrJJW TIL Wet Wet Wet lead Marty Pellow had their hit song Love is All Around removed from sales not long after going to the cinema and hearing someone say "God, not that song again!" as the Four Weddings trailer played, it was still selling 120k copies/week when it was pulled 3.5 months after release.
e07Rk TIL that 1986s Howard the Duck box office failure lead the films producer (George Lucas) to be so badly in debt that he had to sell he just-launched computer-animation division to his friend, Steve Jobs of Apple.That same year, Jobs renamed the company to Pixar.
8e1N4 TIL that Hitler had absolutely no reason to declare war on the USA