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TIL The Minnesotan public school teachers who created The Oregon Trail never made a cent off the game

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PkAO TIL that the difference between American and British English is not due to American English diverting away from British, but rather British English changing while American English did not. American English is actually more similar to 1700s British English than the accents in the UK are today.
4RPa TIL if Germany wins the world cup today, it would be the first time as a united country. The 1954, 1974, and 1990 world cup was won by West Germany.
GAQPN TIL that during the second Rocky Marciano Vs Ezzard Charles boxing match, Charles split Marciano’s nose in half and the fight would have soon be stopped had Marciano not managed a KO of Charles.
jN9lX TIL Norman Greenbaum wrote the famous song, "Spirit in The Sky" in only 15 minutes, and has been living solely on the royalties for the last 50 years.
vWZ7 TIL of the “Tinker” supreme court case. In 1965 as a Vietnam War protest 3 kids wore black armbands to school. The school banned the armbands. They wore them again and were suspended. The “Tinker test” is used to see if a school’s disciplinary actions violate students’ 1st Amendment rights