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TIL Grasshoppers are older than grass, having evolved roughly 250 million years ago

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4X5rR TIL Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, ran and won his campaign from prison. Once elected president, he released himself.
xVAZk TIL After the cancellation of the 1944 Olympics, Polish prisoners of war being held in the Nazi Oflag II-C POW camp staged their own unofficial Olympics games. They made their own flag from a bed sheet, an opening ceremony was held and even a commemorative stamp was printed by the camp post office.
b6gEE TIL: Ternary computers use trits instead of bits and they are cheaper to manufacture and operate than binary computers.
nWERd TIL The NFL started using Roman numerals for Super Bowl V in 1971 and then went back and renamed the previous championship games as Super Bowls I, II, III and IV.
78ExO TIL there is a brand of Sake called Nagasaki that looks suspiciously like a bomb.