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TIL over the past 104 years, the Syracuse men's lacrosse team have only had (4) head coaches.

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LkA0Z TIL there was a southern fast food chain called Yogi Bear's Honey-Fried Chicken (and fiberglass statues of Yogi, Boo-Boo, Cindy, and Ranger Smith have been dumped into a "graveyard" behind a truck stop in North Carolina).
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QNkp6 TIL from Aristotle that "the privy parts of the male camel are directed backwards"
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epDy6 TIL the English word 'arena' comes from the Latin word harena, which was the fine-grained sand spread on the floor to soak up gladiator blood.