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TIL Stranger Things was rejected by 15 to 20 different networks before Netflix picked it up

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jlJX TIL Officially know as the first famous bodybuilder and the father of modern bodybuilding, Eugene Sandow, born in 1867, immediately became a phenomenon with his unprecedented combination of muscle quality and strength. His beautifully symmetrical and densely muscular physique made him famous.
0w7Rp TIL the stadion, formerly also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the circumference of a typical sports stadium of the time; showing how we're not the first to measure some things in football fields.
8jbZ TIL that J.R.R.Tolkien (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) and C.S.Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) were friends at Oxford. They organised a literary group for budding writers who would share their stories over lunch and a beer in the same pub every Tuesday.
XvrQ TIL that in 1968, a bomber carrying 4 nuclear weapons crashed over an icy bay in Greenland. The recovered debris only accounted for 3 out of the 4 weapons, and searches for the missing bomb under the ice were unsuccessful.
AZpB TIL You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist