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TIL that Mark Twain discouraged the use of exclamation marks because it is like laughing at your own joke

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lRDa TIL the NFL owns the licensing rights to every team except the Cowboys. In 1995 Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones started to make his own deals, NFL sued him for 300 million, to make the league back down, Jerry counter sued them for 750 million.
rREre TIL Sergeant Kevin Cohen was shot by a sniper, got his sperm extracted from his body and frozen, and had a baby 11 years after his death with a woman he never met.
16bKd TIL that former NBA Player and Milwaukee Buck, Junior Bridgeman who passed away on Tuesday, 3/11 was recently determined to be the fourth wealthiest retired athlete in the World by Forbes Magazine. His pro basketball career lasted from 1975-1987 but later became a billionaire as a entrepreneur.
ADYw TIL there’s no hard evidence the Qu'ran existed before the last decade of the 7th century, 6 decades after Muhammad’s supposed death.
9wJNM TIL the Panathenaic Stadium, built in 330BC, is the only stadium made entirely of marble, was excavated and used in the 1896 Olympics, and and is still used for events today. Its record attendance of 80,000 was for a basketball game in 1968.