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TIL Uranium and Plutonium are named after Uranus and Pluto

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OGV87 TIL that Canadians play a modified version of “American Football” with a 110-yard field that is wider and still has the fieldgoal post at the goal line (NFL moved in back in the 1970s)
4Xvrb TIL that on the 22nd of August 1914, 27,000 Frenchmen lost their lives attacking the Germans. It is the bloodiest day in French history.
wLd8 TIL that when Joe Frazier was a boy, other kids would give him food or money to walk with him at school to avoid being bullied.
KOoAa TIL that in 2015, New York City went 12 days without a reported homicide. It was the longest streak since the NYPD began recording statistics with a computer program in 1994. The previous record was 10 days.
kdR7 TIL Peter Jackson’s overuse of green screen technology in The Hobbit caused Sir Ian Mckellen to break down into tears on the set.