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TIL that the National Hockey League played a season with only three teams in it.

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x64AD TIL the jury in trial for Snowtown serial killer John Bunting were banned from listening to ‘Throwing Copper’ by the band ‘Live’ because Bunting played it to his victims as he tortured and killed then in his bathtub.
g8w8 Til that Roman Emperor Nero is the most decorated Olympian. With 1,808 wins.
oRN6Y TIL In 1971, the Guinness World Records listed Clara as the "Most Indefatigable Cruise Passenger". For 14 years, she lived on RMS Caronia, which cost her $396 in daily fare. Without accounting for inflation, Cunard Line received $4 million from her in tickets.
9Gy7 TIL in 1923, a Mississippi association developed an influential set of recommendations about street-sign shapes whose impact is still felt today. The recommendations were based on a simple, albeit not exactly intuitive, idea: the more sides a sign has, the higher the danger level it invokes.
Mekym TIL that George Meegan walked from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska, an unbroken walk of 19,019 miles.