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TIL Art, Music and Poetry were once Olympic Sports

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jNoGn TIL Subway spent $22M in 2007 keeping shows Chuck and Community on air, giving them creative freedom as long as they showed their subs. The creator of Community decided to show Subway any chance he could. The Chief Marketing Officer of Subway at the time said they "experienced double digit gains".
78Wvb TIL there are 160 separate photographic portraits of Frederick Douglass, which is more than Abraham Lincoln.
Po5n TIL that after Kanye West’s mother’s death due to heart problems resulting from her cosmetic surgery, Governor Schwarzenegger signed the “Donda West Law” legislation making it mandatory to prove well being prior to undergoing cosmetic surgery.
R5bg4 TIL cows kill more people every year than sharks.
oBp48 Til that if adjusted for inflation,The Birth of a Nation(1915) is the first ever film to gross a over a billion dollars,at 1.8 billion dollars gross(in modern money),making it the forth highest grossing film ever.