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

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jlxv TIL that there is a runway in Somaliland, a country that is not even recognised internationally, which is so long NASA rented it for 40 million dollars a year just in case the space shuttle could not make it back to America.
6LOY TIL Will Smith’s shortened first name does not stand for William. It’s Willard Caroll Smith, Jr. In addition, he has a 22 year old son also named Willard (III). Except Willard III goes by “Trey”
4VEw TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
YGwd TIL that the number of administrators at U.S. universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the increase in students and teaching faculty.
N7wr8 TIL Toto -- the band who made "Africa" and "Rosanna", was the band that played the music for Michael Jackson's THRILLER (!)