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TIL George Foreman named all five of his sons George Foreman

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ZleD TIL that a North Korean man holds the world record for the clean and jerk in the 56kg event. He became only the fifth man to ever clean and jerk three times his own body weight. He won gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic games with this feat.
pYOaQ TIL that Pablo Picasso was once accused of stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911 and was brought in for questioning before being cleared of any involvement
ooNK TIL That comcast billed people for missing and destroyed equipment after hurricane Ike in 2008
e0Lrn TIL the plans for Winston Churchill's state funeral had to be revised several times because Churchill outlived several intended pallbearers.
b6roZ TIL Uranus had been observed and catalogued multiple times going as far back as 128 BCE. However, due to its very slow orbit and dimness it was always misclassified as a star until 1781. The discovery that it was actually a planet effectively doubled the size of the known solar system.