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TIL that the white soles in sport shoes are cheaper and that's what makes them so common.

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yVoZ8 TIL that there is a Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship, where students compete in Word, Excel and PowerPoint - First place gets $7.000
5YK68 TIL Russell Crowe hated the big speech scene in Gladiator where he confronts Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), unsuccessfully trying to improvise new lines and ultimately saying "It was shit. But I'm the greatest actor in the world and I can make even shit sound good."
7nKL TIL that 28 US states have an official state beverage. 21 of those 28 chose milk. Alabama chose whiskey.
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oB1po TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life, but after a friend took him to visit a school for black children. He wrote that African ignorance was not inherently natural but come from lack of education, slavery and negative environments. And petitioning Congress to end slavery.