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TIL Herschel Walker was a Heisman winning running back, member of an Olympic bob sled team, ballet performer, professional mixed martial artist, successful businessman, and almost predictably suffers from multiple personality disorder.

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Bgawd TIL about jurist David S. Terry, who killed his former friend, Senator David Broderick in a duel, and 30 years later attacked his successor as Chief Justice of California, Stephen J. Field, who was on the Supreme Court.
neQkb TIL of the Grand Hotel in Scarborough, England, which had 365 rooms for each day of the year, 52 chimneys for the weeks, 12 floors for months of the year, and was shaped in a V to represent Queen Victoria
PY6Rg TIL: Plymouth, Montserrat the world's only ghost capital of a political territory. The town was abandoned in 1997 after continuous volcanic activity, but it still recognized as the island's capital.
6E9BY TIL White Tailed Sea Eagles went extinct in Scotland in 1916 due to hunting and egg collecting. In 1975 a breeding pair from Norway were re-introduced and in 2006 the 200th Sea Eagle egg hatched on the Isle of Skye.
vPK08 TIL one of the members of the gospel group 'The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi', regained his sight, and was subsequently kicked from the group.