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TIL Kelvin Bryant won the USFL's inaugural MVP award, beating out Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker

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6EGvQ TIL the Albuquerque minor league baseball team changed their name to the Albuquerque Isotopes after the Simpsons episode, “Hungry Hungry Homer” in which Homer prevents the Springfield Isotopes plan to move to Albuquerque with a hunger strike.
V9bG TIL that when Finnish Mathematician Lindeberg was asked why he was not very academically active he said he is a farmer first. When asked why his farm is shit he said it is because he is an academic first.
graPL TIL that there was a six-episode anime adaptation of Robert Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers
Lk6RP TIL Oliver Stone’s original story for Platoon was called Break, based on his own experiences in the Vietnam War and set to music from The Doors. He sent the script to Jim Morrison hoping he would play the lead. Morrison never responded but he did have the script with him when he died in Paris.
XAgE TIL Marijuana is not illegal or considered a drug in North Korea, and the population uses it as a cheap alternative to cigarets