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TIL the CFL is older than the NFL. At one point it also had American teams and in 1995 an American team won the Grey Cup (CFLs Super Bowl equivalent).

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Ovye TIL Handwriting has been deemed a “useless skill” in Finland and will no longer be taught to children. Instead, typing will be taught.
xVWY5 TIL of the Five Whys method, invented by Sakichi Toyoda (b. 1867, d. 1930, founder of Toyota industries) as a method of working through symptoms until a root cause is discovered by asking "Why?" five times.
4gxw TIL that the character Kenny on South Park is based on a real childhood friend of Trey Parker, who was named Kenny, was the poorest kid in town, wore a large parka that muffled his voice and would frequently skip school, inspiring the running joke that “he died” by classmates
OGgj4 TIL The 1967 adaptation of Ulysses was considered so vulgar in New Zealand, theaters would play it to gender segregated audiences. The offensive parts were only 1 F-word and a character describing oral sex.
b671E TIL that Drew Barrymore's family heritage (The Barrymores) had been acting since the 1800's.