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TIL Pat Riley, former NBA player and now NBA executive with the Miami Heat, trademarked the word “Three-Peat” in 1988. When the Chicago Bulls won three straight championships in the 1990s, he was paid $300,000 dollars in royalties.

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1avAd TIL after Albanian citizens lost ~$1.2 billion (~$400 per capita) to Ponzi schemes in 1997, some of the losers started protesting against the government. The protests ultimately turned into a 6+ month civil war that toppled the government and killed 2000 to 3800 people.
kMQ5 TIL Violets can be smelled for only a few moments at a time because they get their scent from ionine which shuts the smell receptors off after simulating them. After a few breaths the scent pops up again but the brain registers it as a new stimulus. So everytime you smell a violet is a first time.
OGLYe TIL that in 2011, condemned inmate Lawrence Russell Brewer requested an elaborate and expensive last meal prior to being executed which he then refused to eat. The state of Texas has refused last meal requests ever since.
ne9Er TIL there's a Buddhist majority republic in Europe called Kalmykia. It's part of Russia, many inhabitants are ethnically Mongolian and it's capital features several beautiful Buddhist temples.
8eXZb TIL The Ghermezian brothers was inspired by the traditional bazaars that existed in Persian cultures and wanted to build the “Disney World of shopping malls”. They saw their West Edmonton Mall as “ninth wonder of the world” and it had a theme park named Fantasyland until they got sued by Disney