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TIL that despite being one of the most popular musicians of the modern era, Bruce Springsteen has never had an Number 1 record in America

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OGYy1 TIL That the rolling suitcase wasn't invented until 1972. Bernard D Sadow allowed travelers to ditch handheld bags and was made to pulled around with a leash.
AKBn TIL in 1981 Steve Wozniak returned to the University of California, Berkeley, under the alias Rocky Clark, to finally complete his electrical engineering degree after his success at Apple.
Bxje TIL the odds of getting the Boardwalk piece in the McDonald’s Monopoly is 1 in 602,490,060. The odds of finding Park Place are 1 in 11.
YpxR7 TIL in the Vietnam war, there was a flourishing sex industry for American soldiers. There were an estimated 300,000 sex workers in the country at this time. There were also an estimated 50,000 bastard American-Asian children, who were given the derisive name bui doi (dirt of life).
ANwO4 TIL while Dick Fosbury was creating the Fosbury Flop, which became the standard high jump style after his 1968 Olympic gold, Debbie Brill was developing the same technique, calling it the Brill Bend. Neither knew of each other's innovation until they competed at the same junior competition.