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TIL Sardines are named after the italian island of Sardinia

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87pK TIL Some of competitors at the first modern Olympic games (1896) were tourists who happened to be in Athens.
GAwb5 TIL that Nika Futterman, who voiced Asajj Ventress in "Clone Wars" also performed the "Give it to me, baby" lyrics in the Offspring song "Pretty Fly for a White Guy".
A48g TIL instead of making a film about Iraq or Darfur, Stallone made Rambo 4 (2008) about “lesser-known” Myanmar military atrocities
QJJra TIL that in 2014, a group of ameteur rocket scientists hacked into a NASA probe that had been decommissioned in 1997.
OGN04 TIL Texans All-Pro DB Derek Stingley Jr. is the grandson of Darryl Stingley, who was paralyzed in 1978 after a hit by Oakland Raiders safety Jack Tatum and lived the rest of his life as a quadriplegic.