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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.

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G5A4 TIL: An Italian tradition, now spreading, of caffè sospeso (suspended coffee) where people can pay for coffees on top of their own so the less well off can have a cup too.
wL18o TIL that Charles Darwin's iconic Tree of Life sketch is missing presumed stolen from Cambridge University Library.
R7oX9 TIL in Jan 2011, a pilot mistook Venus for an oncoming aircraft and sent his plane into an emergency dive to avoid a midair collision.
OGXYg TIL a nationwide survey conducted by the CDC (and using data collected from 1999-2002) found that 29% of American men and 9% of women reported to have had at least 15 sexual partners in their lifetime.
GY51E TIL about Gareth Jones, the Welsh reporter who broke the Holodomor story - Russia's secret mass starvation of at least 3.5 million Ukrainians. He was murdered one day before his 30th birthday, most likely by the Soviet NKVD as retaliation for embarrassing the regime.