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TIL it takes 600 cows to make one full season’s worth of NFL footballs.

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5PJk TIL that the first school shooting to happen in the United States was the Enoch Brown school massacre, in which 2 Delaware (Lenape) American Indians broke into a school where they shot and scalped the students and their teacher. 4 others were taken prisoner.
xDAB TIL black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
yVBkv TIL the famous evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman married an already married man leading to massive controversy in early U.S. After their divorce 7 years later, she stated she actually wasn't married to him because she had fainted while saying her vows during the ceremony.
GYKPG TIL about Frisland, a "phantom/imaginary" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s.
XEp4r TIL that Godwin's law, introduced in 1990, states that the longer an online discussion grows, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1