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TIL a football referee was injured in Maine after being shot by a loaded cannon

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1a4j8 TIL that the scientific name for a Brain Freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia
KOG1J TIL that the Navajo Nation Indian reservation has its own elected president. The office was created in 1991 with the current president being Jonathan Nez.
D1QMg TIL Ving Rhames (aka Marsellus Wallace) is the voice of Arby's commercials, with the catchline 'Arby's, we have the meats!'
1aRbW TIL Zoroastrian funerals involve a ritual called sagdid (dog-sight). A dog was brought in before the body. If the dog stares steadily at the body, the person is still alive. If it doesn't look at the body, death is confirmed. This was useful in ensuring that a coma was not being mistaken for death.
yVOM TIL Hunter S. Thompson terrorized Jack Nicholson on his birthday by playing the sound of a pig being eaten alive by bears and shooting at his house.