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TIL there were still three people using iron lungs in 2017, one of them permanently

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womm1 TIL Infectious Grooves' song Do What I Tell Ya! criticized Rage Against The Machine's relationship with multinational conglomerate corporation, Sony.
rRyrd TIL In 1964, a Swedish art gallery displayed 4 paintings by unknown artist Pierre Brassau. Every single art critic praised the ‘avant-garde’ work- except one, who said, ‘only an ape could have done this’. In fact it was all a hoax by a journalist and 'Brassau’ was actually a 4-year-old chimpanzee.
W9dN TIL that the Troll offshore platform is the biggest structure ever to be moved by man. It is 1210 feet high (369m)
LEM9 TIL the NFL’s use of pink is a marketing ploy to attract female viewers and hardly any money goes to cancer research
M71kB TIL that only three soccer teams competed at the 1904 Olympics: the Canadian team of Galt F.C. won the gold, two teams from the USA (Christian Brothers College and St. Rose Parish) won the silver and bronze medals.