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TIL: 29 countries boycotted the 1976 Montreal Olympics because New Zealand's involvement in playing rugby against South Africa.

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kD4e TIL of Brian Robson. A homesick Welshman living in Australia who was too broke to get home. He decided to mail himself in a crate back to the UK nearly dying in the process, only to find himself in Los Angeles by accident.
Br9Qr TIL when ketchup first rose to prominence the primary ingredient was mushrooms. “Mushroom ketchup” was the leading recipe for nearly 200 years until “Tomato ketchup” began to rise in popularity.
rRGGo TIL The film The Shawshank Redemption remains one of the most valuable assets in Warner Brothers catalog (which has several multi-billion dollar movie franchises) and Bob Gunton (the warden) still makes six figures a year from it.
El4d TIL The Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) started a 2 hour TV special called “Finding Dispersed Families” in the 80’s that helped war torn families reunite after 30 years, but with overwhelming applicants, the show went on for another 6 months helping reunite hundreds of thousands of families
M7pPB TIL: about Nüshu, a chinese script exclusively used by women, that was almost lost after texts were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.