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TIL Usain Bolt demands his ad shoots to be done in Jamaica to bring money to his country

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epy8L TIL that Black pepper has been used in Indian cooking since 2000 BC and was used as a form of commodity money.
P1AYe TIL about the Great Sheep Panic of 1888 where tens of thousands of sheep, in an area of 200 square miles, simultaneously broke out of their enclosure and looked like they were terror stricken
QNx0X TIL Catherine Hickland married David Hasselhoff while he was playing the character Michael Knight in Knight Rider. After they divorced, she married a man whose actual name is Michael Knight.
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0w4vj TIL of Christopher Knight who lived as a hermit for 27, never talking to or even meeting any other human. He survived by stealing from remote cabins, scattered in the wilderness of Maine.