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TIL that people in England previously called football, soccer.

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ngOP TIL that in 1969 Mick Jagger wrote to artist M.C. Escher asking him to provide an image for a Rolling Stones album cover. Escher turned him down. He’d never heard of the Stones. He’d never heard of Jagger and he objected to Jagger addressing him by his first name.
l7Ba1 TIL: 1897, the Buffalo Soldiers 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps embarked on a 1,900-mile journey from Montana to Missouri.
nWNQd TIL about the Gilmi Glider incident, in which passenger plane Air Canada flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight due to a series of failures - including two broken fuel indication systems, a confusion between pounds and kilos, and a technician accidentally undoing a repair to the fuel systems.
YjxG TIL in a lawsuit where a company called SCO tried to sue IBM for $5 billion over their alleged use of Unix code in Linux, an IBM lawyer was quoted as saying “If you proceed with this horseshit the sky over Utah will blacken with lawyers”
aeMN TIL the word “panic” comes from the Greek woodland god Pan who was believed to be the source of mysterious forest sounds that would caused contagious, groundless fear in animals and humans alike