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TIL that golf will be an Olympic sport in 2016

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7rGRX TIL that the founder of T-Series, Gulshan Kumar, was murdered in August 1997 by the Mumbai Organised Crime Syndicate for refusing to pay protection money to them. This exposed the decades old nexus between Mumbai Gangs and Bollywood.
Zp55Y TIL the familiar 'valentine' logo at the beginning and ending of 'I Love Lucy' wasn't added until the show went into syndication. The show was originally sponsored by Philip Morris and began with Lucy and Ricky dancing around a huge pack of cigarettes.
9GY6 TIL that a lioness adopted and nursed leopard cub in Tanzania. No wild cat has ever been observed nursing a cub from another species – the event may be the result of the Tanzanian lioness having lost her own litter
9Yr9Q TIL The RAC have a function in their vans that transforms into a towing device or a complete trailer to recover vehicles.
NXQlP TIL Fred Gwynne [a.k.a. Herman Munster] wrote and illustrated children’s books. He once said the only thing he ever dreamed of being was a portrait artist.