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TIL Nike made a commercial with a Samburu tribesman saying “Just Do it” in his native language. An American anthropologist called them out. He actually said “I don’t want these, give me big shoes.” Nike’s response: “We thought nobody in America would know what he said.”

rR4BW TIL the first living creature to orbit the earth was Laika, a stray Russian dog. Russian scientists figured a stray dog already learned to endure harsh conditions of cold temperature and hunger making it an ideal astronaut.
Y7Wrv TIL a deity symbolizing love and beauty was distorted into a demon after a century. In the 2nd century AD, Hadrian deified his lover Antinous and demanded that everyone worship this deity. However, in Egypt, people found that a 3rd-century man named Sarapammon was summoning Antinous as a demon.
KYV8R Today I learned that once, while Elton John was visiting Groucho Marx, Marx playfully pretended to shoot John by pointing his fingers at him like a pistol, and John replied, "Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player!" John later used this quote as the title of one of his albums.
gr5bX TIL that in the event of a U.S. military draft, members of the Florida State Guard (a state-level Civil Defense organization) are immune from conscription
Elow TIL that in 1991 an F-15 fighter achieved an air-to-air kill using a 2000lb bomb. The USAF F-15E Strike Eagle of the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron released a GBU-10 Paveway II laser-guided bomb which, after 30 seconds of flight, impacted an Iraqi Air Force Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunship.