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TIL - 8 of the top 10 largest stadiums in the world are college/university football stadiums from the US.

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b91wZ TIL of fascist-era Italian officer Rodolfo Graziani, known for his ruthless treatment of civilians in Africa. Ethiopia's government attempted to have him tried, but were blocked by the British and Italian governments. He was sentenced by an Italian Court for Nazi collaboration but this was commuted.
rROAW TIL of the bald-hairy joke, which states that Russian leaders have been alternately bald and not bald (hairy) since 1825. For example, Lenin (bald) was succeeded by Stalin (hairy), who in turn was succeeded by Khrushchev (bald), then Brezhnev (hairy)
JYlGl TIL that Kareem Abdul Jabbar had serious misgivings about attending UCLA and considered transferring to Michigan.
NvWM TIL Sony has a patent on making viewers yell product names out loud to end TV ads
wLo0P TIL that there are a pair of replica Titanics, 4 stories tall, that serve as museums to the disaster. They're in rural Tennessee and Missouri, amongst cornfields, 3000 miles from the disaster.