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TIL the S in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything
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TIL Before there was year-round scheduled ferry service to Prince Edward Island, "professional ice-boat people" were offering passage there as early as the 1820s. During winter crew members and economy passengers got out of the boat and haul 24km over ice covered waters
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TIL - There’s a Christmastime tradition practiced in Newfoundland where people dress up in wacky costumes, knock on neighbours doors, sing using inward breathing and get drunk together.
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TIL Yang (Lenovo’s CEO) received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits, which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo’s employees. He did same thing again in 2013.
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TIL that on examining the brain of 111 deceased NFL players, 110 of them were found to have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) - a degenerative disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.
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TIL that the 1942 Rose Bowl was played in North Carolina because of the fear of a Japanese West Coast attack