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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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MebyK TIL that book trailers are a thing and there are tens of thousands of them online
GdR1 TIL China is rapidly building a “supercity” expected to house 130 million and cover an area the size of Kansas
d8Za8 TIL tug-of-war used to be an Olympic sport. In the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, the host nation took gold, Great Britain took silver, and no one won bronze because only two teams showed up.
KO76a TIL the diamond shaped patch often found on backpacks were originally used to carry ice axes
xwj7 TIL that Florida investigators recreated a home fire to prove that a man had committed arson. Instead, they found that accidental fires could produce burn patterns that looked exactly like gasoline fires, and that signs of arson that investigators had been relying on for years were unfounded.