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TIL that Canadian sports network rivals TSN and SportsNet were once based at the same office complex, with only a parking lot separating the two. Workers would refer to leaving one channel for the other as “crossing the lot”

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gKmb TIL Floyd Mayweather accused Manny Pacquiao of wanting to fight him due to money problems. Pacquiao responded by challenging him to donate ALL their proceeds from their fight (estimated to bring in around $400,000,000) to charities around the world. Mayweather said no.
dM5j TIL in the first draft of the Anchorman script, the story was about a planeload of news anchors who crash in the mountains and discover that the plane which they collided was carrying monkeys and martial arts equipment, leading to a battle between cannibalistic newsmen and star-throwing monkeys
6jYZ TIL that apart from humans, dogs are the only other known species that can understand finger pointing. Not even chimpanzees could manage it in one study.
b6klj TIL that the Golden Rule, treat others the way you want to be treated, can be found in a story from ancient Egyptian religion titled 'The Eloquent Peasant' dating back to Egypt's Middle Kingdom (2040–1650 BC).
4XbWJ TIL about Thimmamma Marrimanu the tree with the greatest perimeter length in the world.A distance of 846 m is required to walk around the perimeter of its canopy.