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TIL CNN’s founder Ted Turner, at the launch of the channel in 1980, promised: “We won’t be signing off until the world ends. … We’ll be … covering it live. … [And] when the end of the world comes, we’ll play ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ before we sign off.”

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VEaD TIL the Coconut was named by Spanish and Portuguese explorers who thought the three holes made it look like a human face. “Coco” means grinning face. The English made it “coconut” in 1613.
GAMgj TIL that the 1998 film Small Soldiers nearly received an R Rating due to violence & explosions
6EA8Z TIL Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, is not allowed to bike to work because his safety is too important to Nintendo
VB0dp TIL Henry Kissinger is 100 years old
wobe8 TIL Nike made an ad where a Samburu tribesman said Nike's slogan "Just Do it" in his native language. An anthropologist called Nike out. The phrase actually meant, "I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike admitted their mistake and stated “we thought nobody in America would know what he said."