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TIL that Jim Coleman, a sportswriter made up the 'curse of Muldoon' to meet an editorial deadline. The curse supposedly prevented the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League from finishing in first place from 1938 to 1967.

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nALY TIL the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, at the age of 13, was one of the first known teenagers to take a mirror selfie.
rNkVM TIL after 50 years researchers have identified the mystery man on the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV as Lot Long, a thatcher who was born in Mere, Wiltshire in 1823 & died in 1893. At the time of the photograph, he was a widower living in a small cottage in Shaftesbury Road, Mere.
VBwQ8 TIL that despite retiring in 2021, starting this season baseball player Chris Davis will receive from the Baltimore Orioles $9.16 million a year for the next 3 years. He'll receive $3.5 million a year for the following 7 years and starting in 2033, he’ll receive $1.4 million a year until 2037.
woEL7 TIL That according to a long standing tradition, every year after the last supply plane left Antarctica for the winter and the base was buttoned up for a long dark wait until spring, the whole crew would gather in the lounge together to watch The Thing.
Wk4Zd TIL that in November of 1999, Kevin Smith attended a protest against his own movie: "Dogma." He even made it onto the local news, when the on-the-scene reporter asked him (not knowing it it was him) his thoughts on the movie. He responded: "I don't know, but I've been told, 'not good.'"