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TIL That Garrett Brown, inventor of the Skycam suspended camera used to shoot sporting events, got the idea from a conversation with former football player Merlin Olsen the set of Little House on the Prairie.

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4B4o TIL when someone asked British PM Margaret Thatcher if she was concerned about Germany beating England in football, she said “No, we already beat them twice this century at their national game.”
KB69 TIL there is a restaurant chain called “Dick’s Last Resort,” where the servers are instructed to be obnoxious and to treat their customers poorly by not giving them any napkins, and then throwing them at them when they ask for some.
Z88w4 TIL that in the War of 1812 when the British burned Washington D.C., British Admiral George Cockburn had his soldiers burn a newspaper printing house and ordered them to "Be sure that all the 'C's are destroyed, so that the rascals cannot any longer abuse my name."
5VnDB TIL India still officially recognises 5 sub-national monarchies, known as the 'Kings of Dangs'. They receive payment from the government every year during Holi
KOJR TIL if officials awarded Lance Armstrong’s 2005 Tour De France title to the next fastest finisher who has never been linked to doping, they’d have to give it to the 23rd place finisher