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TIL In the first ever modern olympics, there were 169 Greek athletes and 14 American athletes. US still won more gold.

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MyAA TIL When Coca-Cola announced the return of Coke’s original formula in 1985, ABC News interrupted General Hospital to break the story.
9Z1m TIL that the NFL cannot host games on Fridays or Saturdays until late December as federal law prohibits professional football leagues from competing with college or high school football, which typically host games on those days.
XEZZj TIL turkeys were always presented to presidents to be killed for their Thanksgiving meals. Then in 1989 George HW Bush became the first to pardon a turkey instead.
ANQQx TIL In the movie Memento, only the color sequences move backward and they start off as objective. The black and white sequences move forward and start off as subjective. It all converges at the end.
awZe0 TIL of a Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a WW1 British soldier, spy, intelligence officer, explorer, and naturalist who was a fraud as well as a psychopath and murderer—even killing his own wife when she nearly exposed him for submitting stolen museum birds as his own discoveries.