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TIL: In the 1970’s two factions: hippies and cops played football against one another in a series of games immortalized as “Pigs vs Freaks”.

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1aNEr TIL the most abundant vertebrate genus in the world is not chickens but probably the bristlemouth fish numbering in maybe quadrillions of members. Basically these tiny fish are everywhere deep in the ocean and even gave strange false bottom readings by sensors of ocean depths when first discovered.
jNAop TIL that 75% of “photography” in the IKEA catalogue is actually not photography at all; it’s CGI
Ypwpr TIL that in 1942 the US effected gas rationing; the goal was not to save on gas but to conserve the rubber used in tires to benefit the war effort.
e0QML TIL that Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night was actually just a translation of a song by the exact same name, "Stranci u Noći" by Ivo Robić, Croatian singer that lived in my city
wojwW TIL a day on Mercury (a full rotation) takes twice as long (176 Earth days) as a year. A full revolution around the sun occurs every 88 Earth days.