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TIL Sean Bean survives more than he dies.

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oBBmY TIL Eminem's daughter Hailie Scott was crowned homecoming queen, and he watched it from an empty classroom to avoid taking the attention from her
vPVnL TIL about the sport Slippery Stairs where contestants try to climb stairs covered in lube
Lkenv TIL The television series 'Gunsmoke' stayed in the top 30 of Neilsons Media Ratings for an entire decade. Im learning about television ratings because they're meaningful to somebody that I despise.
NXrLb TIL at a 2005 congressional hearing, mentions of the Sedan nuclear test was incorrectly transcribed as "Sudan" in the record. Sudanese officials later stated that they "take this issue seriously and with extreme importance" and allegedly blamed the U.S. for raising cancer rates among their people.
neJrW TIL that around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci designed a robot. When these plans were found almost 500 years later and built according to Leonardo's specifications, the design worked perfectly.