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TIL the NFL’s use of pink is a marketing ploy to attract female viewers and hardly any money goes to cancer research

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kJno4 til that Uncles lumbago jokes come from an old John Wayne movie!
bew7 TIL that HBO may reveal the ending to the Game of Thrones series before the last book comes out due to scheduling commitments
OGZ7Y Today I learned that there is a Microsoft Excel World Championship where people compete based on their Excel formula skills and it’s (like?) an eSport
pY89A TIL in 2009 researchers discovered a bottled message in Auschwitz. The message contained the name & number of seven inmates between 18-20 years old, and the hometowns they were taken from. At the discovery two of the inmates were alive, three had passed away, the fate of the last two is unknown
pMw8 TIL in 1959 Apartheid South Africa, the words “European” and “Non-European” were replaced by “Whites” and “Non-Whites” at Johannesburg Airport, because Americans tended to use the Non-European doors in order to distinguish themselves from actual Europeans.