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TIL Brett Favre's football-throwing prowess in high school was nearly overlooked by scouts because his father, the high school coach, preferred to win games with a running back-oriented offense

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Wv79 TIL Steve Buscemi volunteered at his old firehouse the day after the 9/11 attacks, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble looking for missing firefighters
mWkO TIL that during filming of “Super Mario Bros.” Bob Haskins (Mario) and John Leguizamo (Luigi) were so unhappy working on what they knew to be a bad movie that they would often get drunk to go through with shooting scenes.
MexMA TIL There's a satellite in orbit that's running a Nexus 1 Android as one of its main CPU's
4XPLw TIL that Monday is also known as the ”Heart attack day” because there is a proven increase in the rate of heart attacks
kO577 TIL the Church of Scientology is classified a ‘vexatious litigant’ having abused the federal court system by using it to destroy their opponents, rather than resolve an actual dispute. Central California’s US District Court has never seen a more glaring example of bad faith litigation.