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TIL that Patrick Chung made the NFL playoffs in all 11 of his seasons (2009-2019, with an opt-out in 2020). He is the only player in NFL history to appear in the playoffs in each of his first 11 seasons.

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XEe8r TIL Mary Babnik Brown donated her hair during WWII and later received a personal letter of thanks from Ronald Reagan explaining that her hair had been the perfect fit for complex bombsight called a Norden sight. Both wire and spider silk had been used beforehand, and neither worked as well.
dnrj TIL research indicates that you are less likely to maintain motivation to achieve a goal if you announce that goal to others (Link to PDF)
9lr7 TIL NASA Managers claimed that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance of a catastrophic failure aboard Challenger, but Richard Feynman discovered that NASA’s Engineers estimated the chance of a catastrophe at closer to 1 in 200.
ANp44 TIL of coffee, was discovered by a goat, and later an Ethiopian shepherd found that his sheep were excited after eating coffee berries, and he boiled the berries to make the prototype of the first cup of coffee in history
p8JxZ TIL every time a global epidemic happens (like the 2014 Ebola outbreak), sales of the app ‎Plague Inc. skyrocket.