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TIL The Pledge of Allegiance Was Just A Marketing Ploy
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TIL: The NBA began the 2006 season using a microfiber composite ball designed to eliminate the need for a "breaking-in" period. Players hated it, and some said it caused paper-cut-like slashes on their hands. The NBA returned to leather balls less than two months into the season.
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TIL that the British planned on defeating Hitler by turning him into a woman.
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TIL Palmyra Atoll is the only U.S territory that is subject to all Constitutional provisions even if it has no inhabitants. If a foreigner gave birth on the atoll, that child would be an American citizen.
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TIL that Ozzy Osbourne has survived decades of drug and alcohol abuse because he has several genetic mutations “we’ve never seen before” that help him party hard.
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TIL that the character Danny Trejo plays in the Spy Kids series is canonically the same person as his character in Machete. The Spy Kids' uncle is actually a paid assassin in his own series of R-rated movies.