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TIL that a team from New Zealand built a special, tiny treadmill, to help a kiwi named Ruata rebuild strength in the injured leg.

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7rDBr TIL about the Fenn Treasure. Allegedly hidden among the Rocky mountains, it has an estimated value of 2 million dollars and 5 people have died looking for it.
69m0Y TIL there were different variations of The Simpsons opening theme because starting with season 2 they made 3 versions: the full 1-minute-15-second-long version, a 45-second and a 25-second. This gave editors a little extra flexibility to pad shorter episodes or add as much footage as possible.
R5906 TIL: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." it is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion;
xLEb TIL In early versions of the board game Monopoly, there were no tokens. Instead, players were encouraged to use common household items like buttons and thimbles. The now-popular Monopoly tokens were released in 1937, modeled after the most popular items that players would use.
OG5xL TIL that Jared Fogle first came to media attention in April 1999 because of an article published in the Indiana Daily Student written by a former dormmate about Fogle losing 245 lb (111 kg) by exercising and eating a diet of Subway sandwiches.