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TIL that there was a group that created a sperm bank exclusively containing the semen of Nobel Prize winners in hopes of selectively birthing the next generation of geniuses.

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p6NN TIL Despite the fact that Jesse Owens won four gold medals during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, US President Franklin Roosevelt never congratulated or invited him to the White House. ‘Hitler didn’t snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me,’ Owens said
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apjN TIL that “jiggawatt” is an obscure but acceptable pronunciation for “gigawatt”, which makes its use in the movie “Back to the Future” legitimate. Producer Bob Gale said he had thought it was pronounced this way because this was how a scientific advisor on the film pronounced it.