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TIL that NBC and Cablevision partnered to put live coverage of the 1992 Olympics on 3 Pay Per View channels. The "Olympics Triplecast" was a flop, and even triggered a lawsuit from NYC over false advertising.

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mxPBP TIL In 2017, Canadian scientists recreated an extinct horse pox virus to demonstrate that the smallpox virus can be recreated in a small lab at a cost of about $100,000, by a team of scientists without specialist knowledge.
NYAE TIL 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer. Several frosts and snow across New England destroyed crops and led to starvation.
xV4Yb TIL: Despite common misconception Ben Franklin did not propose Daylight Saving Time. Modern DST was first proposed to the Wellington Philosophical Society NZ in 1895 & first enacted in Port Arthur Canada in 1905
0dogA TIL a man was confined to an abandoned container ship with no power for 4 years, after it was detained in Egypt and its owners went bankrupt
OoBpL TIL contrary to popular belief, there was no widespread persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. In reality, "the execution of Christians for religious nonconformity was extremely rare."