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TIL former NFL players have formed a group pushing for NFL to allow players to use Cannabis and curb the painkiller epidemic

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QNJWL TIL in 1896, American taxidermist Carl Akeley was attacked by a leopard while on a visit to Africa and killed it with his bare hands by ramming his hand down the leopard's throat and choking it to death.
Y7KYZ TIL about a 1986 arcade game called Chiller in which the player uses a light gun to activate torture devices to maim and kill restrained characters who are incapable of fighting back. It was a commercial failure in the United States because arcade owners refused to purchase it due to the content.
ekwL TIL In 2000 Sony invented a movie critic by the name of David Manning and used his fictional quotes to promote movies. Sony ended up paying over $1.5m to moviegoers in a class action lawsuit and over $300,000 to the state of Connecticut where Manning supposedly worked at a small weekly paper.
m1GbM TIL there used to be a $5000 dollar bill, and if you had one you could get around $300K for it.
xVOJ5 TIL that the actress that played Talisa Maegyr in Game of Thrones is the granddaughter of famous English actor Charlie Chaplin.