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TIL many Olympic athletes are either broke or working 9–to-5 jobs outside of their training.

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LxyP TIL The pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14million) that the network president was fired for greenlighting it.
vPMr TIL: The CEO of Red Lobster was fired due to an all you can eat promotion and underestimating American gluttony
OojW4 TIL a German stranger in a street interview predicted Germany's 7-1 win over Brazil in 2014
R5VwQ TIL the first cassette single was a mini-album C-30 C-60 C-90 by Bow Wow Wow released in 1980; half of the cassette was intentionally left blank to encourage people to use it to record (pirate) other music
6EQG7 TIL of Britain's ghost trains - rare train services in the UK which only see a couple of passengers every day. They're only there because closing lines and stations is difficult and costly, and rail companies would rather run infrequent services than go through the cumbersome process.