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TIL that the Dickinson High School (North Dakota) athletic teams are known as “The Midgets”. The school considered changing the name but the Little People of America stated that they were not offended by it, influencing the school to keep their traditional mascot.

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Z8EPB TIL over 150 bison live on an island off the coast of California. Originally 14 of them were transported to the island in 1924 for a silent film and were then left there by the production crew where they flourished.
Yp6dP TIL the weight of the entire internet is calculated to be around 50 grams
WJ09 TIL Nintendo refuses to do movies based off of their games because of the critically panned Super Mario Bros. movie.
loVm7 TIL that Christopher Meloni will reprise his role for a new SVU-spinoff series, where Stabler comes out of retirement to lead an NYPD Organized Crime task force. I I would enjoy that as L&O:SVU is one of my favorite shows. This new one is L&O: Organized Crime.
4knlb TIL that before the invention of erasers, writers and draftsmen used to use bread crumbs to erase mistakes.