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TIL that New Balance, one of the world’s major sports footwear and apparel brands, was founded in 1906 in Boston as the New Balance Arch Support Company.

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m1KQo TIL that the grandfather of actor Tom Felton (Draco from Harry Potter) is Nigel Anstey - a geophysicist who has made major contributions to seismic exploration, which are the foundations for many of the techniques used in today's oil and gas exploration. Nigel was born in 1927 and is still alive.
b6Dw7 TIL that the word "shrapnel" comes from Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel, inventor of the first Shrapnel shell, whose name eventually came to be associated with the metal fragments his creation produced.
WpLd TIL that New College in Oxford was in need of new oak beams for it’s dining hall (the old ones were infested with beetles). They soon discovered that the original builders had planted them replacements hundreds of years before.
4xBg TIL that the Great Stork Derby was a contest held in Toronto from 1926-1936, in which women competed to produce the most babies in order to win $750K as stipulated in the will of a wealthy lawyer. The prize ended up being split among four women who each had 9 babies.
kOWbg TIL Deinocheirus, a dinosaur with no teeth, swallowed rocks to help digest its food