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TIL two world famous shoe brands - Puma and Adidas - were born from a sibling rivalry. The feud between the two brothers - Rudolph and Adolph - lasted all their lives.

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LkOGp TIL of Katsuma Dan, a Japanese marine biologist who studied in the US before WW2 and who saved his marine lab with a note to advancing American forces asking to preserve his scientific work. (note in comments)
jNZaX TIL that when Isaac Newton was 20, he compiled a list of his sins. They included: "threatening my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them", "peevishness with my mother". and "wishing death and hoping it to some".
woNJ6 TIL that, following the success of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq's "most wanted" playing cards, the US Department of Defense printed "Archaeology Awareness" playing cards. They were intended to educate soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan about the importance of protecting archaeological sites.
nW6Ob TIL there is an 800sq mi chunk of land between Egypt and Sudan that is claimed by nobody
0yYL TIL in 1975 a county clerk in Colorado issued a same-sex marriage license, finding no law that forbade it. When a man came to her office to marry his horse in protest, she determined the 8-year-old horse was too young to get married without parental consent and refused the license.