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TIL Will Ferrell & Andy Murray played Will Arnett & Andy Roddick in the '09 US Open

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jNVjn TIL that in 1808 two Frenchmen held a duel in the skies by both riding their own hot air balloon and shooting at each other's balloon
KObyR TIL that the webcam was invented just because 3 people wanted to keep a check on coffee level without walking to their breakroom.
eDKD TIL Greta Friedman from the kissing sailor photo did not want to be kissed saying “It wasn’t my choice to be kissed, The guy just came over and grabbed me!”
PAxL TIL that Australia’s quarantine laws during the 1956 olympics were so strict that they prevented equestrian events from occurring. The equestrian events were simultaneously held in Stockholm making 1956 the only instance of split site olympics.
8eNaX TIL the CIA considered making a deepfake video of Saddam Hussein “cavorting with a teenage boy” in an effort to destabilize the country before the US invasion.