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TIL that though Samoa and American Samoa are only a few hundred miles apart, the islands are 24 hours apart on calendar

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8ewvb TIL in 1979 basketball legend Magic Johnson turned down an endorsement deal with Nike offering him 100,000 shares of stock and $1 for every pair of shoes sold in favor of a deal with Converse that paid him $100,000 annually. In declining the Nike deal Johnson missed out on over $5 billion.
LQxjZ TIL Louisa May Alcott (author of Little Women) wrote a story about taking hashish in 1876, with a happy ending
kOyMg TIL of the “smoosh method”, a way of introducing two chinchillas to each other by placing them both in a small cage they can’t move in so they don’t attack each other
xV0Wo TIL Goofy Goober Rock from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) is a parody of the Twisted Sister song “I Wanna Rock”.
0dZ8R TIL about Cura Annonae, an Ancient Roman system of free or subsidized food for Roman citizens