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TIL only 8 percent of sales of Pink NFL merchandise goes towards Breast Cancer Research.

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ONge TIL that female gladiators (gladiatrices) existed during the Roman Empire.
0de9R TIL that in 1956, songwriter Roger Miller was driving along and saw a sign on the side of a barn, ""Trailers for sale or rent". That became the first line of his new song, "King of the Road", which hit #1 on the country chart, #1 on the easy listening chart, and #4 on the Hot 100 for that year.
KYmga TIL that the last U.S. President who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican was Millard Fillmore, the final Whig Party President, who served in the executive office from July 1850 to March 1853.
MeaX7 TIL the last time the British Empire expanded was 1955, when they annexed a tiny rock 300km off the Scottish coast to prevent the Soviets spying on their ballistic missile tests.
7rBNM TIL that the Billy Joel song "She's Always a Woman" was the last song that played in the World Trade Center Plaza before the Towers' collapse on September 11, 2001