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TIL that Europe has an official anthem

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nDlb TIL that Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
ne1xP TIL when actor/stand-up Jimmy O, Yang got his big break landing a role on an HBO show his father was proud but unimpressed. Jimmy's dad told him if he could do it, he could as well so Jimmy got him an audition to prove it. He got that small part then went on to work on a hugely popular Chinese show.
R78l9 TIL that many PBS stations across the US switched to all children's programming after the September 11th attacks in order to "provide children a safe harbor from continuous news coverage of the attacks."
jNjba TIL that according to Astronomy Magazine's list of "Seven Wonders of the Solar System", the Earth's greatest wonder is our oceans.
Br11e TIL in 1913 Milunka Savić joined the Serbian army in her brother’s place-cutting her hair and donning men’s clothes. According to a Serbian source, she may be the most-decorated female combatant in the entire history of warfare.