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TIL Ryan Stiles is a high school drop out

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9YmAB TIL despite Theodore Roosevelt giving his name to the “Teddy Bear” after refusing to kill one, his sons Kermit and Theodore Jr. are the first westerners to have shot a Giant Panda.
6EPVw TIL That Bob Hawke is the only Australian prime minister with a world record and his world record is for drinking 2.5 pints of beer in under 11 seconds.
wL44J TIL JRR Tolkien began writing a sequel to Lord of the Rings called The New Shadow which he found so depressing that he abandoned it after 13 pages.
LQYbV TIL of the 3:16 game. In a Broncos/Steelers playoff game, Tim Tebow wrote "John 3:16" on his eyeblack. He would go on to have 316 passing yards and 31.6 yards per completion. Ben Roethlisberger threw an interception on 3rd-and-16, and the Steelers had 31 minutes and 6 sesconds in time of possession.
a8NwL TIL in 2011, John Riccitiello, who was the CEO of EA at the time and is now the CEO of Unity, proposed a model for online multiplayer shooters like Battlefield. In this model, players who ran out of ammo could make an instant real money payment for a quick reload.