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TIL in 2008, high school football coach Kris Hogan got many of the fans of his team to cheer for and support the other team because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and did not have fans of their own

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16V1V TIL about Norman Cahners, 1936 Harvard class president, U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials qualifier, inventor of the modern pallet, Navy Officer, and magazine publishing empire founder.
e0m55 TIL there is a species of beetle that lives in ant nests by imitating the sounds of the ant queen. These beetles feed on ant eggs, larvae and adults by piercing their mandibles into the abdomen or other soft part and sucking the contents. There appears to be no benefit to ants from the association.
BrNDK TIL clocks run from left to right because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadows (bonus: in an attempt to recover their cultural identity, Bolivians installed an anti-clockwise clock in their Congress building)
bXJj TIL seat belts don’t make school buses safer, and may not be worth the added cost, according to NHTSA
0Dyj TIL 3 years ago Craig Cobb white nationalist/Neo-Nazi went on a talk show to speak about his new white only town project but, the show decided to test his DNA to see just how “pure” he was and he turned out to be 14% Sub-Saharan African making him mixed race.