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TIL that Honda specifically designed the CG125 to run with little to no maintenance, as the prior CB125's engine had issues related to owners skipping oil changes

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xVgWo TIL that one of the first recorded instances of the word "fuck" in its modern English meaning was in the court documents of a 14th-century case in reference to a man named in the documents as "Roger Fuckbythenavele".
4XVJo TIL that the reason soccer lost popularity in America was primarily due to the Great Depression which caused many clubs to default and the shutdown of the American Soccer League
xpxb TIL of a banker in a small Florida town who encouraged people to buy shares of Coke during the Depression and now the town has “secret Coke millionaires”
Wkmv4 TIL Denmark and Sweden holds the world record for most wars fought between two countries, with around 30 wars fought since the 15th century.
JY741 TIL that Martin Luther King’s mother was also assassinated. A deranged man who believed Christianity was harming African Americans gunned her down as she played the organ in church. He was sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment because the Kings opposed capital punishment.