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TIL there is an eSports World Cup tournament for Microsoft Excel

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P4WV TIL that entirely poodle teams have competed in the Iditarod
1K4W TIL Monopoly is based on The Landlord Game, a socialist board game all about the evils of monopolies. With socialist messages.
R5BZ8 TIL that the 1904 Olympics were originally awarded to Chicago. But St. Louis, which was hosting the World’s Fair that year, threatened to undermine the Olympics with an even bigger sports competition. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, then moved the games to St. Louis.
vP4KB Til Irving Berlin's first wife contracted typhoid fever on their honeymoon in Havana. She died 5 months later. He eventually remarried and was married for 62 years until his second wife's death.
OGOX6 TIL Penn Jillette holds a patent for the "Jill-Jet", a hot-tub jet specially angled for a woman's pleasure.