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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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jNOkN TIL that in 2004 a burglar broke into the house of a 73 years old grandma, who instead of calling the cops, offered him food and a glass of milk, pray for him and even shared family photos with the burglar. Later when he fell asleep the grandma called her daughter who then called the cops
ne8ko TIL that you shouldn’t brush your teeth after eating. Apparently you should wait 30 minutes, because otherwise you’ll just be brushing all the damaging acids into your teeth. It’s better not to brush your teeth at all than to brush your teeth right after eating.
LQrlV TIL at the height of operations during the Berlin airlift, one plane reached West Berlin every thirty seconds. The C-47s and C-54s together flew over 92,000,000 miles (148,000,000 km) in the process, almost the distance from Earth to the Sun.
WVDN TIL Lou Pearlman, who signed N'Sync, The Backstreet Boys, and other boy bands in the 90’s would choose one boy from each band to molest as a condition of signing them. A former employee is quoted as saying “There was one guy in every band — one sacrifice … who takes it for Lou.”
rvrM TIL CIA Operation Mongoose tried to kill Castro with exploding cigars, shells to poisoned wetsuits, milkshakes, a former lover; character assassination via thallium to make his beard fall out and LSD. Castro: “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”