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TIL In 1976 Terry Kubicka was the first and last figure skater to legally perform a backflip in his performance at the Olympics, it was banned shortly after.

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Ke94 TIL That decades old TV shows and movies can be up-scaled to HD because they were shot in HQ, but the technology at that time wouldn’t allow HD viewing.
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