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TIL that an off-brand Olympic Games competition was held in July 1980, called the Liberty Bell Classic, in Philadelphia. It was for the countries that boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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xV0A0 TIL in 1970 Nike offered Spencer Haywood either $100,000 or 10 percent of the company in exchange for promoting the company’s shoes. He chose the 100k over the stock that would be worth $8.6 billion today
V1mk TIL not a single engineer survived the Titanic sinking. They stayed on board in an effort to give others the chance to escape
awpd0 TIL that, when asked to investigate the space shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman wrote a very critical report about NASA's safety policy concluding: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
NXVlJ TIL about Merkury Vagin, an 18th century Russian Arctic explorer who was murdered by members of his own expedition after discovering the New Siberian Islands.
Y7DpG TIL Dolphins have two stomachs.