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TIL that there's a national Rotten Sneaker Contest in the US that's gone on since the 1970s. The person with the nastiest sneakers/other sports shoes wins, and gets $2,500. It's a marketing campaign for Odor-Eaters, for ages 5-15.

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e0Wgg TIL about "The Great Leveler," a book that argues that the greatest redistributions of wealth in history are during times of war, plague, and catastrophe, citing the Black Death and WWI as "actually suppressing inequality, by raising the price of labour."
yye TIL that the founder of FedEx once saved the company by taking its last $5,000 and turning it into $32,000 by gambling in Las Vegas.
ZVbp TIL that a sheep’s wool never stops growing and it can actually roll over on its back from the weight and die of starvation
G0w5 TIL that wasabi is sometimes referred to as “Japanese horseradish”. In Japan, horseradish is referred to as “western wasabi”.
nmJP TIL Food Network’s Alton Brown began his career in cinematography and film production. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was the cinematographer for several music videos, including “The One I Love” by R.E.M.