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TIL the Chicago Fire FC won the Major League Soccer (MLS) Cup as well as the U.S. Open Cup in their first season in 1998.

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R55Xa TIL that the FCC prohibits replications of the Emergency Alert System tone. Broadcasters misusing it can be sanctioned and fined. In 2013, the trailer for Olympus Has Fallen had EAS tones and cable providers were fined $1.9 million dollars.
Z8r7B TIL that Canadian sports network rivals TSN and SportsNet were once based at the same office complex, with only a parking lot separating the two. Workers would refer to leaving one channel for the other as “crossing the lot”
XEmPX TIL Tolkien had Beren and Lúthien engraved on his and his wife's grave, Lúthien being the most beautiful being in all Arda and Beren the man she forsook her immortality for
X0prk TIL in 1973, a Harvard astrophysicist suggested that we won't discover more advanced civilizations because they don't want us to find them and have the technology to ensure we never do. They have also set aside our planet as a zoo wherein they can observe us. He coined this idea the Zoo Hypothesis.
v1nG7 TIL dyscalculia, "math dyslexia" (the difficulty to comprehend arithmetic, understand numbers, and perform calculations) affects up to 60% of people with ADD and dyslexia