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TIL that ski resorts were openly hostile to snowboarding in the early years of the sport, leading many places to ban snowboarding entirely.

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8aNjb TIL that the FDA has banned Kraft Singles from using the term "pasteurized processed cheese food", meaning that all Kraft Singles are now known as "pasteurized prepared cheese product" instead.
woVEo TIL the only reason we have video of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series is because Bing Crosby was too nervous to watch the game live so he had a company record the game for him. During this time TV networks didn't keep records of the games. The tape was found 50 years later in his wine cellar.
OG6oa TIL South African para-athlete Oscar Pistorius was also convicted of firing a gun in a restaurant, which occurred a month before he shot and killed his girlfriend.
8e1ZK TIL that there are very few figurative statues in honour of enslaved people in the entire Caribbean - only 6!
Z870D TIL before the age of alarm clocks, there was a job known as the “knocker up” where a man would tap on someones window with a long pole until they were awake. Often factories would hire men to ensure they made it to the knocker up position on time.