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TIL The 2002 Longshoremen Strike that delayed Christmas products that year is the reason why Christmas decorations started to appear in stores earlier each year.

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GnQE TIL 2 ancient cities in China were drowned in 1959 by a man-made lake and were forgotten about until discovered in 2001 by a tourist diving company. The cities remain intact and in good condition.
b64Dp TIL that the first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m. It was created in 1787 by Levi Hutchins in Concord, New Hampshire. This device he made only for himself, however, and it only rang at 4 am, in order to wake him for his job.
J1Yll TIL that before 1986 professional athletes were not allow to compete at the Olympic Games.
4A5N TIL that audio experts could not tell the difference between $100 Monster speaker cables and cables made from soldering together old coat hangers
Yr5v TIL of Manfred Ramminger. A KGB Agent who walked into a Nato base, stole a Sidewinder missle, loaded it into his mercedes, drove it home and than shipped it by Mail to Moscow