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TIL the only head coach in the history of the University of Kansas Men's Basketball team to have a losing record was James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.

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Y7v4x Today I learned about a place in New Zealand called TaumatawhakatangihangaKōauauoTamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu -This place holds the record for having the longest name of a place in the world, with a whopping 85 characters.
XEWor TIL, the name Nickelodeon is derived from an old chain of movie theatres in the United States, having over 8,000 theatres at one point. The name itself comes from the terms: Nickel for 5 cents, and the greek word Odeon, meaning a building for Musical Performances.
vPpw4 TIL that Albert Einstein was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on special relativity and energy mass equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc^2) but rather for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
Y7ZW TIL that the stronger a man is physically, the more likely his political beliefs will be aligned with his own selfish interests as opposed to the common good.
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