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TIL That More People Visted US National Parks Than Went To Every Single Disney Park, NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball game and NASCAR race combined.

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v1KgD TIL that only 3 bowlers have picked up the 7-10 split on television and that despite many shows and movies showing it being picked up by directly sliding one pin into another, this is, in fact, impossible.
RWm8 TIL at the 1863 World Checkers Championship, every game of the 40-game series ended in a draw. 21 of the 40 games were exactly the same, move by move.
loPm5 TIL that Kendrick Lamar's DAMN is the first non classical/jazz musical work to win the Pulitzer Music Prize. The awards began in 1943.
noVG TIL there is such a thing as one-way bulletproof glass. This allows you to return fire through the glass while still keeping you protected from the attacker (your shot leaves a bullet-sized hole, but doesn’t compromise the rest of the shield).
YpLZv TIL that the US army guys who took part in the clean up of Enewetak Atol after nuclear testing are dying from radiation related illnesses and the US government wont recognise them.