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TIL that Deland McCullough, former NFL player, and current RB coach for the Chiefs, was given up for adoption at birth in 1973. He found his birth mother in 2017. She told him the name of his father, who turned out to be his college coach and mentor throughout his adult life.

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4wYo TIL Greenland got its name because the Viking who discovered it was banished from Iceland and felt lonely in his new homeland, so he named and advertised it as the lush ‘Greenland’ to attract settlers, despite the fact that it was actually a completely barren and largely uninhabitable land
xnWD TIL: When clasped by a predator, the spiny mouse is able to shed its skin, sometimes losing up to 60 percent of it’s skin in a single slough to escape. It can then regrow it over the course of a few days. It is the only known mammal to practice Autotomy, or self amputation.
jNaEX TIL The CIA extracted 6 US diplomats from Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis using comic book artist Jack Kirby's concept art for a scrapped movie as a cover story when they convinced authorities they were part of a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a movie titled Argo which was made up.
7rRaP TIL: the United States Postal Service photographs every piece of mail it processes. In 2O13, it took more than 16O Billion photographs.
KYDD6 TIL A $286K painting was discovered by an art historian because he was watching Stuart Little with his daughter & noticed it in the background of this scene. It had been purchased for cheap by a set designer who had no clue it was a world-famous painting believed to be lost since 1928.