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TIL Will Ferrell did a commercial for the Superbowl in 2012 for free. It aired in only one town in Nebraska.

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epWx4 TIL a 2017 study found that 73 attacks by wild polar bears on humans occurred between 1870-2014, which resulted in 20 human deaths and 63 human injuries.
oByyL TIL when Jesse Owens broke the world record in the 200m dash in 1936, the second place runner—Mack Robinson, brother of baseball legend Jackie Robinson—also broke the previous world record. He worked as a middle school janitor the rest of his life afterward.
VBVPG TIL of Kim Hyon-hui - a north Korean agent who killed 115 people in a plane bombing. Originally sentenced to death, she was pardoned after less than a year and has been free ever since
16o6r TIL that the first American flag was designed by a high school student in 1958. He got a B- on the project, but when his design was adopted, his grade was bumped to an A!
85KP TIL that after the US fought Britain, president George Washington vowed never to set foot in London again , so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Britain, they also included soil from Virginia to place under the statue.