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TIL that 54,000 tennis balls are used at Wimbledon each year.
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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.
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TIL That the Nazi’s invented the Olympic Torch Relay. It was so successful, that the IOC adopted it ever since.
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TIL In the 1936 Presidential Election, Franklin D. Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes, while his opponent Alf Landon only won 8.
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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
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TIL that Marilyn Monroe’s real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson. She legally changed it to Marilyn Monroe before her first major modeling gig.