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TIL Oneida Silverware company started as a free love commune in upstate New York

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xVba7 TIL some Viking raiders converted to Islam and became cheese traders after their attacks were repulsed by Muslim Spain
b6Ooj TIL of the Dicker-rod, a device intended to replace the first down chains commonly used to measure 10-yard distances during games of gridiron football.
6EylJ TIL for an entire season Michael Jordan would bet Scottie Pippen on the Jumbotron races during timeouts (but MJ would have the scoreboard operator tell him the outcome ahead of time).
4k8KR TIL that women's football was banned in England from 1921 until 1971.
kJeA4 TIL that Big Bird has a Mexican cousin named Abelardo Montoya, which appears on Plaza Sezamo, the Mexican co-production of Sesame Street