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TIL Tennis athletes runs at least two times more distance than the most active American Football players in each of their respective matches.

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69g4X TIL abou Fritz Haber, a Jewish German chemist who discovered the mass synthesis of Ammonia as fertilizer. He later aided Germany in WW1 by discovering Nitrogen explosives, weaponized Chlorine gas and early versions of Zyklone gas.
VMB9G TIL just after the big bang there was a giant cold spot in the universe which cannot be explained, but may have been caused by our universe colliding with another.
oR7QE TIL Mott’s (the apple juice company) makes Clamato and keeps their branding off of the actual bottles entirely, while they themselves are owned by Dr. Pepper, so essentially Clamato is a Dr. Pepper product
jeDE TIL Director Luc Besson started writing The Fifth Element as a novel when he was 16 years old. Twenty-two years later, it opened as the #1 movie in America.
Aykg TIL in 1945, Army photography David Conover saw a young woman on the Radioplane assembly line whom he thought had potential as a model. He photographed her working on the OQ-3 model, which led to a screen test for the woman, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.