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TIL only 6% of high school players go on to play college football. Only 1.7% of college football players get drafted in the NFL. That means only 0.08% of high school football players will go pro.

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Yp8nZ TIL about British Double Summer Time. During WW2, after moving an hour forward for DST in 1940, they didn’t roll back in fall. They moved forward again in spring of ‘41, resulting in being 2 hours ahead. It helped people finish their day and get home with some extra light during enforced blackouts.
4ORw TIL - Sloths sometimes remain hanging from branches even after death.
Xd16 TIL U.S. income inequality is now the highest it has been since 1928: 1 year before the Great Depression
1mar TIL California has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states, only 27 of which are serious.
E1087 TIL that the American flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission was inserted only seven inches deep and was placed about 27 feet from the Eagle landing craft. As a result, it was blown over by the blast of the rocket exhaust during the takeoff back to Earth.