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TIL: ‘Born in the USA’ was 1st CD Made in the US

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Me00 TIL Nike offered the German Soccer team €500 million to outfit the team. They honorably refused and stayed with German-based Adidas for six times less.
awXAb TIL water is diamagnetic. If you have enough salt in the water and put a magnet near close by it, it will push the water.
e4nL TIL that, in the early nineties, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg literally traded movie properties they were no longer interested in making. The films? Cape Fear (1991) and Schindler’s List (1993).
kJGkW TIL that the architect of the Canadian War Museum designed it so that the sun would cast a beam on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Ottawa at 11:00 on November 11.
N7AXE TIL 60's social activist Abbie Hoffman and author of Fuck the System ,Revolution for the Hell of It, and Steal This Book , had an FBI file that was 13,262 pages long. or, about 11 times that of Tolstoy's War and Peace