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TIL the popularity of American football has declined so much in the US that many high schools no longer have enough players to even have a team

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waN6 TIL of a P51 fighter pilot captured by the Japanese after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Under torture for info about the Manhattan Project - which he was ignorant of - Marcus McDilda made up a lie that the US had 100 bombs and that Tokyo was the next target. Japan soon surrendered.
OMwa TIL: The Virgin Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran.
MeW9m TIL that a Millard Fillmore Society used to gather annually at his grave to remember how forgettable a president he was (1850-1853)
nWoJo TIL In the US. up until 1996, nicotine patches and gum required a prescription from a doctor
LkrM0 TIL the first use of Biological Warfare, and the cause of one of the first recorded epidemics ever, occured when the Hittite Empire released rams infected with Tularemia into enemy lands over 3500 years ago.