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TIL of Eagle Stadium, a $60 million high school football stadium in Allen TX. The project was highly controversial, considering that the money could have paid 120 teacher salaries for a decade.

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7revp TIL that Iceland, which is a country that strongly supports firearms, hasn't had a murder since 2007
LkLYv TIL a 2004 study found out that only about 1 in 25,000 Singaporeans aged 15-64 had used cannabis in the previous year.
E9eP TIL there is a proposal for Canada, The United States, and Mexico to abandon their native currencies for a shared currency, similar to the euro.
PAxL TIL that Australia’s quarantine laws during the 1956 olympics were so strict that they prevented equestrian events from occurring. The equestrian events were simultaneously held in Stockholm making 1956 the only instance of split site olympics.
4kEZN TIL brain infections due to antler-related skull cracks account for 15% of mortality in male deer