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TIL that in 1943 the Steelers and the Eagles once made a combo team called the Steagles due to player shortages resulting from WWII

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8e1Ob TIL Isaac Newton created the modern color wheel
VBXpk TIL of 'Newman Day', an unofficial holiday at some US Colleges, including Princeton and Yale, in which students aim to drink 24 cans of beer in 24 hours. Based on an apocryphal remark by Paul Newman, about "24 hours in a day and 24 cans in a case", the actor (an alcoholic) abhorred the 'holiday'.
OrY6 TIL “Now is not the time for making new enemies” were allegedly the death bed words of Voltaire, after being asked by a priest to denounce Satan.
W7dy8 TIL they buried a 1957 Plymouth underground for 50 years, The Car That Became a Time Capsule
gr1B7 TIL Less than 10% of the world's population is atheist or agnostic.