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TIL that NFL player Antonio Cromartie has 10 children from 8 different women and despite getting a vasectomy is expecting twins with his wife. Several of the other women keep in touch and most of the moms are on board for a reality show about the situation.

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v1OvL TIL that Dustin Hoffman, Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman were roommates as struggling actors in New York City in the 1960s. They now have 19 Oscar nominations and 5 wins between them.
gM689 TIL The bazooka was a brass musical instrument created by Comedian Bob Burns. It was several feet in length and incorporated telescopic tubing like the trombone. The military borrowed the nickname for its anti-tank weapon during World War II due to its vague resemblance to the musical instrument.
wLeYE TIL Steven Spielberg didn’t want to direct Indiana Jones because it was planned to be a trilogy and he didn’t want to write 2 more scripts. George Lucas told him not to worry as he’d already written them, but when time came for the first sequel, Lucas revealed he’d written nothing for either sequel.
ADVXg TIL that seemingly pointless zigzags on the roads in the Western US are there to compensate the road grid for the curvature of Earth.
kJ9Yg TIL that in 1948 a 'charismatic' British ex-ski champion & yodeller stole 3000+ butterflies from Australian museums, just cos. His excuse for the Butterfly Heist was 'distraction of mind' due to his recent divorce. The whole saga was a mess for science, even decades later.