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TIL Domino’s Sold as Many Pizzas during OJ Simpson’s Car Chase as it did on Superbowl Sunday

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6ePJ TIL: The origin of saying “Bless you” after someone sneezes dates back to at least 77AD and may be due to (amongst other things) people originally believing that a person’s soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed
yj6J TIL in 1985 Simple Minds rearranged and recorded “Don’t You Forget about Me” in 3 hours then forgot about it until The Breakfast Club came out and it became a #1 hit.
ekPb TIL in the middle of the Savannah International Airport lies a 200 year old grave in the runway, marked because the family was reluctant to move the graves to another location while the airport was urgently built to use for bombers during WW2.
oRpx7 TIL: Baby hippos such as Moo Deng, as well as elephants, pandas, and koalas eat their mom's feces. Eating the poop gives their digestive systems the bacteria they need to digest the vegetation which forms an essential part of their diet.
4XEaX TIL in the movie Apollo 13, Jim Lovell's wife Marilyn was seen losing her wedding ring down a shower drain. According to Lovell, this did happen, but she managed to retrieve the ring later.