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TIL That Adidas is an abbreviation of it's owner's name, Adolf (adi) Dassler (das)

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jbJn TIL, during the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon’s estranged father was a dishwasher and got an opportunity to record a song. John was furious at his father’s attempt to cash in on his success and demanded the song pulled from the charts. It was and the elder Lennon went back to washing dishes.
QwXE TIL that India’s Mars mission cost less than the movie “Gravity.”
grNnW TIL that medieval pilgrims could deposit funds at London’s Temple Church with the Knights Templar and travel with a written letter of credit, redeemable at other Templar houses on the way to Jerusalem, thus avoiding the dangers of carrying cash and creating an early form of international banking.
054j TIL There’s a National Eagle Repository in Colorado, where bald and golden eagles found dead are sent, and then have their parts redistributed to Native American tribes for ceremonial purposes
p8MGZ TIL that the first female referee in a UEFA-sanctioned football game was Nicole Petignat, the match was AIK(SWE) vs Fylkir (ISL). AIK won 1-0