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TIL George Foreman has 5 sons all named George Foreman

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WbN8 TIL that WalMart and McDonalds are the 3rd and 4th largest employers in the world; only the armies of the United States and China employ more people.
lovL5 TIL that In October 1971, a physicist and an astronomer took 4 cesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world and when reunited, the sets of clocks were found to disagree according to the predictions of the relativity theory
b9DGZ TIL of Long-Term Capital Management, that was worth $1.25 trillion and took 14 banks to bail out 1998
R5Dw4 TIL that 2001: A Space Odyssey was realised a year before Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon
R7Dn4 TIL that only 55 people finished the first New York City Marathon (held in 1970), yet more than 52,000 runners finished the 2018 New York City Marathon: an increase of more than 94,000%.