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TIL Jacked Up! was a segment on ESPN showing the most violent hits in the National Football League. It was cancelled by ESPN in the wake of concussion studies that showed a correlation with violent football collisions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.

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nOPW TIL that after sweeping the 2004 Oscars, Peter Jackson & Elijah Wood skipped all official celebrations in favour of attending a LOTR fan party.
KYGlE TIL 'Project West Ford,' a 1963 attempt by the US military to create an artificial ionosphere above Earth. They launched 480 million tiny copper needles into space to facilitate global radio communication. The project was short-lived, and the needles eventually clumped together and fell out of orbit
pQmA TIL that the superstition that the position of stars during your birth affects your life was refuted by the mathematician Pythagorus, by simply pointing out that twins don’t have the same future.
yQm8v TIL that the movie What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) was produced by Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Ramtha is an alleged entity channelled by J.Z. Knight said to be over 35,000 years old and from Atlantis and Lemuria, where he was in charge of an army of over a million people.
j6JEa TIL: Tracy Chapman sued Nicki Minaj for copyright infringement. According to the complaint, Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj permission to sample one of her songs, but Minaj did it anyway. Minaj settled and agreed to pay Chapman $450K.