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TIL unlike their counterparts in the NHL, NBA and MLB, NFL referees are not full-time employees, behind hired on a contract basis, and many of them hold day jobs

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b6Qp TIL that lightning rods are not supposed to attract lightning strikes but rather discharge a storms electrical potential before it builds into a sudden strike.
e04w6 TIL World longest flight by Singapore Airlines from Singapore to New York can fly either of two completely opposite directions (over Atlantic or over Pacific) depending on winds and weather.
Zpro TIL That people suffering from depression may actually have a more accurate perception of reality than those with healthy minds. This proposition is called Depressive Realism.
noJY TIL 70% of lotto winners run through their money within 5 years, and it doesn’t matter whether they won $1 million or $100 million
86OL TIL Rosa Parks was not the first black person to be arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, and far from being a diminutive seamstress, Parks was a political organizer and activist, a member of the Montgomery Voters League and secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP