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TIL in a ‘94 Carribean Cup soccer match two teams spent the last 5 minutes of the game furiously trying to score on their own goal

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Ooyya TIL the survivors of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident have taken an oath of silence not to reveal certain details of what happened
mxxyv TIL The Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Izbushensky of 1942 was the last cavalry charge in history.
BrKar TIL: Because the movie 12 Angry men (1957) didn’t make a profit, Henry Fonda never received his deferred salary. Despite this setback, he always saw the movie as one of the three best he ever made. The others being The Grapes of Wrath and The Ox-Bow Incident.
R5Lvj TIL in 1940 a group of four chiefs officially forswore use of the swastika - an ancient symbol of friendship in many Native American cultures - and ceremonially burned a pile of textiles bearing the symbol as an act of repugnance against the Nazis.
J1Q84 TIL Oprah became co-anchor of the evening news in Nashville at only 19 years old; success happened for her 'just like that'