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TIL that 54,000 tennis balls are used at Wimbledon each year.

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5LAr TIL of the “Stroke Belt”, a region of the South Eastern U.S. with unusually higher rates of diabetes, stroke and lung cancer than the rest of the country.
79ep TIL That the Nazi’s invented the Olympic Torch Relay. It was so successful, that the IOC adopted it ever since.
M5mB TIL In the 1936 Presidential Election, Franklin D. Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes, while his opponent Alf Landon only won 8.
ne0AG TIL of mother-in-law languages (also known as avoidance speech) which dictate that a new restricted speech style utilizing a different vocabulary, while retaining the normal phonology and grammar must be utilized in the presence of certain relatives (such a as mother-in-law) which are seen as taboo
j65bE TIL that Marilyn Monroe’s real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson. She legally changed it to Marilyn Monroe before her first major modeling gig.