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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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nerBP TIL of Cliff Young, an Australian potato farmer who at age 61 entered the 1983 Sydney-Melbourne ultramarathon wearing work boots and overalls. He ran non-stop for five days and 15 hours, won by ten hours and donated all of his $10,000 winnings to the five other people who managed to finish the race
b6Jw9 TIL that when DiCaprio told Cameron "Oh, I don't read" for parts regarding the role of Jack in Titanic, the director shook his hand and said "Well, thanks for coming by." After realizing that he had to audition if he wanted the part, he reluctantly agreed to do so with immediate success. 3:03
LkA7r TIL the Vatican has Astronomical Observatories in Italy and Arizona and were involved with a project to map the stars in the late 1890s
LkNMQ TIL That in ancient babylon they where obligated by law to use receipts when exchanging goods for money.
A4bl TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”