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TIL that the Fleetwood Mac song "The Chain" is an assembly of unused material through tape splicing.

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rN75d TIL about Maurice Stokes, the NBA's leading rebounder from 1955-58, who kept playing after hitting his head in a 1958 game, but the cabin air pressure on the return flight gave him career-ending brain damage
xVg67 TIL there is already an avenue for priests to marry in the Catholic Church: They have to be married before they enter the priesthood. This avenue is only available to Eastern Catholics though.
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