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TIL that shoe companies Adidas and Puma were started by feuding Nazi brothers.

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Rrm6 TIL a man in Australia has a unique antibody in his blood and his donations have helped save over 2 million babies
5x88 TIL that contrary to popular belief, marijuana is NOT legal in Jamaica (except in Bob Marley’s mausoleum)
p87J8 TIL Burger King is banned from operating within 20 miles of Mattoon, Illinois due to a lawsuit by the owners of a family restaurant named "Burger King".
xd7b TIL a Canadian province had a “Sexual Sterilization Act” from 1928-1972. Almost 3000 sterilizations were performed on minorities and women who were deemed “mentally defective.” In 1995 a sterilized women was awarded almost $1 million for her humiliation at being wrongfully labeled as a moron.
R7dWw TIL someone born in Shenzhen in 1980 would've started school in a tiny town about the size of Ithaca, NY or Port Huron, MI (30,000 population) and would now be living in the 24th largest city in the world, with more people than Paris (12 million+ population).