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TIL That in 2006 ESPN/Disney traded legendary sports announcer Al Michaels to NBC for the rights to Oswald the lucky rabbit. Oswald one of Walt Disney’s early creations, making his first appearance in 1927.

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78Zxx TIL about the Somaliland campaign, a series of military expeditions in northern Somalia by the British Empire against the Dervish movement from 1900 to 1920. It ended when the British aerially bombed the Dervish capital. 100K to 150K Somali civilians were ultimately killed in the campaign.
7kOZ TIL that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has recovered Apollo 11’s engines from the ocean floor
E1jad TIL 19-year-old Jonathan Burton was killed by his fellow passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City after bursting into the cockpit in what investigators described as a case of "air rage." This incident occurred a year before 9/11.
OoAW7 TIL that Karl Berg found after recording parrots, that parent parrots name their children and those names are used through life.
ANDPn TIL about Perpetual bonds, which, as the name implies, have no maturity date and pay interest forever. One of the oldest was issued by the Dutch water board on May 15, 1648, and is now in the possession of Yale University. The annual interest payment is €11.35 as of 2004.