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TIL that lacrosse is North America's oldest still-played sport, which was played by indigenous people in the 17th Century

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QZ7k TIL the red juice in raw red meat isn’t blood
GYErj TIL a statue of Penn State head coach Joe Paterno was unveiled in 2001, alongside a wall with a quote from Paterno- "I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach." It was removed in 2012 following the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.
kOK97 TIL that Jamie Foxx got the stage name of Jamie when he was starting out in doing stand up comedy and found out that female comedians usually got called up first on stage to perform. By choosing a more feminine sounding name, he tricked the promoters into putting him higher in the performing order.
aZD9 TIL that in Russia, Jews were believed to have a a secret vegetable they eat so they don’t become alcoholics. Anti-semitism was justified because they refused to share their magic vegetable
XbpQ TIL of Otto Skorzeny, a Lt. Colonel in Hitler’s SS who was once called “the most dangerous man in Europe” by Allied intelligence. Years after the war, Skorzeny became an agent for the Israeli Mossad and assassinated an ex-Nazi rocket scientist.