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TIL About 'Against the Grain,' the first TV series inspired by the book 'Friday Night Lights.' Ben Affleck starred in it.

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wXA6 TIL FedEx CEO Fred Smith saved the company in the 1970s by gambling their last $5000 in Vegas
e0GPE TIL Popeye the sailor man was inspired by a Polish sailor named Frank 'Rocky' Fiegel
GYLNj TIL that indigenous people in Australia were systematically massacred well into the 1900s. The last massacre, by the Western Australian police, took place in 1926
e08dk TIL that during World War 2, the US implemented a nationwide "Victory Speed Limit" of 35 mph to conserve gasoline and rubber for the war effort.
G8Ej TIL Horatio G. Spafford wrote the famous hymn “It is Well With My Soul” after hearing that his four daughters had died on a ship collision. This was two years after his only son died to pneumonia and his entire business was destroyed by the Chicago fire.