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TIL in all 5 major North American sports, none of the teams that hold the respective winningest season record won the championship that same season

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nWgbB TIL that the 2004 Mercedes-Benz CLS was the world’s first production car to be marketed as a four-door coupe, creating a new segment in the automotive industry
6EnOZ TIL before women became the norm, the earliest telephone operators were teenage boys. These boys would frequently misbehave on the job, drinking, fighting, swearing, and playing practical jokes on the customers.
DmWg TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
GYlkj TIL of the Name Of The Year award, a yearly prize given to the person with the most unique name, as voted for by the public. Current holder is Jimbob Ghostkeeper from Canada.
a8NPA TIL Aussie universities are so dependent on income from international students that they turned failing grades into pass grades and a student graduated with such poor English that a nurse misfed a patient dishwashing liquid because he couldn't read the label on the bottle.