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TIL The original voice of Piglet from 'Winnie the Pooh' died one day after the original voice of Tigger

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9YrN7 TIL how Spanish runner Iván Fernández Anaya intentionally lost a race. Kenyan runner and race leader Abel Mutai stopped 10-20 meters short of the finish line, thinking he had already won. Instead of passing him, Anaya stopped and told Mutai to keep running, thus allowing Mutai to win.
P1E1E TIL that Sony ran a poster campaign for the PSP at a Manchester tram platform that said "Take a running jump here" and had to remove it due to concerns it might encourage suicide
4yMw TIL that the Library of Congress archives all tweets and has collected over 170 billion tweets
9wRGX TIL American Airlines Flight 191 is the deadliest air accident in U.S. history with 273 fatalities. The crash led the FAA to ban all DC-10’s from flying & entering U.S. airspace from June 6-July 13, 1979. DC-10 sales sharply dropped after AA191 due to widespread public apprehension.
O0e1 TIL In Bhutan marijuana grows wild and is more common than regular grass. However, virtually no one smokes it. Instead it is the number one source of feed for pigs.