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TIL that in Veterans Stadium, the visiting football team could see the Eagles Cheerleaders’ dressing room through a hole in the wall

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oAQo TIL a man who was stranded in the woods chopped down some power lines so that the repairmen would have to come and rescue him.
pY9rN TIL about H. Barry Jacobs, a Virginia business man who, in 1983, planned a business to buy and sell human organs on the open market. This led to the creation of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, which outlawed selling organs for profit in the United States.
VM8gD TIL the inventor of Guess Who was a classmate of Anne Frank
YMQr TIL the Ottoman Empire was ruled under one dynasty throughout its entire existence from 1299 until 1922.
NXY1 TIL that in the mid-1800s France gave out a crucial patent in photography for free as a gift to the world … except for Britain. They had to pay.