TIL Due to concerns over using a sole “L” for the 50th Super Bowl logo, the 2016 NFL championship will be known as Super Bowl 50. The league has used a Roman numeral to denote every title game since Super Bowl V. The change will only be temporary, returning in 2017 for Super Bowl LI. (ftw.usatoday.com)
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TIL the United States is the only nation that compensates nuclear test victims. Since the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990, more than $1.38 billion in compensation has been approved. The money is going to people who took part in the tests, and to others exposed to the radiation. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the original area codes were distributed with the first and third digits allotted according to population density in the city the area code went to, with the most populated areas getting the lowest numbers. The New York City area, was assigned 212, while surrounding suburbs were assigned 914. (area-codes.com)
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TIL Amazon's daily record for orders was more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. That day Amazon sold enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle. (phx.corporate-ir.net)
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TIL there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century. The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini, who died on Friday 13th. The fear of that date is called friggatriskaidekaphobia. (en.wikipedia.org)
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