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TIL in most American universities, the only truly profitable sport is American football while men's basketball is somewhat profitable in some schools. All other sports generally lose money.

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1GWO TIL Bad boy George Bernard Shaw titled one of his plays Closed for Remodeling causing theater owners to shake their heads at the sparse crowds.
WbOB TIL Gilbert Gottfried was fired from voicing the Aflac duck after he tweeted out a series of jokes about the earthquake disaster of Japan in 2011. Aflac does 75% of its business in Japan.
9EA6 TIL that Kim Jong Il wanted to solve the North Korean hunger problem by breeding giant rabbits. A German farmer supplied 11 rabbits to help him get started, but it was later discovered Kim Jong Il ate all of them at his birthday party
rRxpd TIL: The mouse was invented and patented by Doug Engelbart in 1963, though when asked who named it he said “No one can remember. It just looked like a mouse with a tail, and we all called it that.” The wire “tail” originally came out under the user’s wrist.
p8RY4 TIL a Scottish man fasted for 382 days, living on vitamin supplements and non-caloric beverages. He was morbidly obese, weighing 456 pounds, and lost 276 pounds. The fast was monitored by doctors, who detected no ill-effects. He never regained the weight. It was the longest recorded fast in history.