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TIL There is footballer named TIL

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LQpx9 TIL the Canadian tuxedo refers to a denim double breasted jacket and matching jeans created by Levi's for Bing Crosby. Levi's was inspired in 1951 when Crosby was nearly escorted off a hotel's premises during a hunting trip in Canada because he and his hunting buddies were wearing denim
XEZAR TIL the US Navy replaced expensive and clunky periscope controls on submarines with Xbox 360 controllers, which reduced training time from hours to minutes
OomYY TIL that Helen Keller learned how to talk through the work of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught her by placing one of Anne’s fingers over Sullivan’s throat, one over her mouth, and one on her nose so that she could feel the vibrations of all the different letters and replicate them herself
R7Z56 TIL Under Stalinism, anyone with, at least 2 cows or more than 4 acres of land was considered a Kulak. Soviet sources estimated 700,000 of them have been executed.
9ByG TIL that in 2009, Miller High Life bought :01 second of ad-space for the Superbowl and effectively increased sales by 8.6%