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TIL Nico Harrison, a former Nike Executive, was responsible for botched shoe presentation for Stephen Curry, which caused him to switch from Nike to Under Armor

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7rQkZ TIL the Australian government held a national competition to name their new currency in 1963. Some of the proposed names were austral, oz, boomer, roo, emu, kanga, koala, digger, dinkum, kwid, and ming, before the parliament settled on dollar.
5Y78r TIL about the “Oh-My-God” particle, which, on the night of October 15, 1991, streaked across the Utah sky traveling at 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light with 320 exa-electron volts (EeV) of energy
5VgP TIL there´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution
yA6l TIL: The white people of South Africa are on genocide watch. About 50 people on average are murdered in South-Africa per day, of which at least 20 of them are whites with a 95% black on white murder rate. White people make up only 9% of South Africa’s population.
rN4kw TIL: April 8 was chosen for Rex Manning day in Empire Records, because that is the day Kurt Cobain was found dead, and the writers felt that the '90s had 'lost its mascot.'