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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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kOKNg TIL: An American Bigfoot hoaxer was run over and killed as he stood in the road trying to startle drivers.
5Y8eB TIL that there is no such thing as real truffle oil. It's made with vegetable oil, artificial flavour, and dried flakes of cheap truffle that add no flavour but allow it to be called truffle oil.
rNErx TIL before the battle of Drepana in the 1st punic war the roman navy commander Claudius Pulcher was told that the sacred chicken refused to eat. Ignoring the bad omen, he said "let's see if they'll drink instead" and threw them into the sea. He lost the battle
WkrAo TIL that the world record for spitting a cherry pit is 28.5 m or 93.5 feet.
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