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TIL an alcoholic court stenographer in Manhattan repeatedly typed I hate my job instead of documenting speech during cases

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Vmr0 TIL that out of 1.086 million high school football players, only 70,147 begin a college football career, out of which only 6500 get scouted by the NFL, 350 get invited to the combine, 256 get drafted and only 150 (0.01%) last at least four years in the NFL.
okAL TIL Neil Armstrong’s 82 year old grandmother told him to look around and not step on the moon if “it didn’t look good”. Neil agreed he wouldn’t.
QJZX9 TIL that there were plans to have George Washington be buried in a tomb beneath the rotunda of the U.S. capitol building which would have a glass floor to allow the public to view the tomb.
rNpo0 TIL about Ippolito d’Este (born 1479), who was a wealthy member of the powerful House of Este. He was made a Catholic Cardinal when he was 14 years old, without ever becoming a priest. He was deeply connected to the Medici, Aragon, and Borgia families.
JYr0V TIL that Christopher Collins, the voice of Starscream in the original series, also voiced Cobra Commander in the 1983 G.I. Joe cartoon. Making him the voice of two classic bad guys for an entire generation. He later went on to have a successful stand-up comedy career.