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TIL that a German hockey team was officially sponsored by Muammar Gaddafi in exchange for the team promoting his book.

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gM1VL TIL internet speed is measured in Megabits, not Megabytes. Bytes hold 8 bits, thus making an internet speed of 100megabits/s actually only 12.5 megabytes/s.
8e1m8 TIL The best estimates currently available suggest that around 212,582 tonnes of gold has been mined throughout history, of which around two-thirds has been mined since 1950. And since gold is virtually indestructible, this means that almost all of this metal is still around in one form or another.
b9rYZ TIL Disney animated movies won the Academy Award for Best Original Song 5 times from 1989 - 1995. (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas)
l7L9B TIL Jingle Bells was originally called “The one horse opened sleigh” and was written as a Thanksgiving or Drinking song.
epRxL TIL that “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod” has been dubbed the English language’s hardest tongue twister in 2018 by researchers at MIT, dethroning the previous champ “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.”