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TIL that professional walking was America's first major spectator sport.

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VBVG8 TIL In 1996, Michael Hutchence presented Oasis with a Brit Award and during the acceptance, Noel Gallagher said, “Has-beens shouldn't be presenting awards to gonna-bes.” Afterward, Michael secretly re-recorded the INXS song "Elegantly Wasted" to include "I am better than Oasis".
woOKY TIL of "Historia Piscium," a book about fishes published in 1686 by the Royal Society. The book sold so poorly that the Society reneged on funding Isaac Newton's "Principia". Clerk Edmund Halley funded Principia himself; the Society later paid him with unsold copies of Historia
nJ4G TIL that there were only two black combat pilots in the First World War. Eugene Bullard was an African-American who served with the French Air Force and Ahmet Ali Çelikten, an Arab-African who flew with the Ottoman Air Force… placing them both on opposite sides of the conflict.
J571 TIL Author Joe Hill was so determined to keep it a secret that he was Stephen King’s son, his own agent didn’t know for 10 years.
EOJx TIL that the fingerprints of koalas are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be easily confused at a crime scene.