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TIL that Adidas is actually named after it's owner Adolf Dassler, who created sport shoes along with his brother. Both Adolf and his brother joined the Nazi party in 1933.

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OlX6 TIL the winner of the 2001 Fox reality show “Murder in Small Town X” was a firefighter from NYC. He was killed a week after the season finale on 9/11 after winning $250,000.00 and a new jeep.
NgB1 TIL that baking (that’s right, oven-baking) your MacBook’s motherboard is a valid option for restoring system failure. Verified this last night. Works like new!
AD8A7 TIL There are more multi-cellular zooplankton per square kilometer in the Chukchi Sea than there are stars in the Milky Way and collectively there are plankton than there are galaxies in the observable universe.
OnGR TIL there is a condition that can cause a male to be born with female genitals but express male genitals during puberty.
n6rb TIL the oldest tree ever to be discovered(5,000 years old) was killed by a man who was trying to discover it’s age.