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TIL Ronaldinho lost a lucrative $750,000 sponsorship from Coca-Cola simply because he took a sip from a Pepsi can during a press conference.

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DQQgr TIL Roscoe Orman who played Gordon on Sesame Street 1974-2016 also played the pimp Willie in the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite
eygn TIL it wasn’t uncommon for married couples to sleep in separate beds until the industrial revolution, when people moved to crowded cities and living space was needed.
78exb TIL Jim Thorpe competed at the highest level for 17 different sports. The sports were the Decathalon, Pentathalon, Football and Baseball.
WOL4 TIL that in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest while campaigning, but the bullet was slowed by a steel eyeglass case and a 50-page speech. After determining the bullet hadn’t pierced his lung, Roosevelt proceeded to give his 90 minute speech as planned.
PYwBO TIL that during the 1870s, 16 Black Members held seats in Congress—14 in the House, two in the Senate, and each one a Republican from the South with Hiram Revels of Mississippi having been appointed the first Black Senator in February 1870