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TIL the Patriots under Bill Belichick haven’t signed a player they drafted in the first three rounds to a second contract since Duron Harmon (Third Round, 2013).

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9wVD7 Til 2 out of the 5 top U.S foreign aid recipients since WWII are failed states that no longer exist
d8QoB TIL Forty stones outline the original boundary of Washington DC, many of which are forgotten and neglected. This 10-sq mile area was to be the new capital of the United States, proposed by George Washington and assisted in its layout by a free-African American astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, in 1789
jNyyN TIL that Sir Alex Ferguson - one of the greatest managers in sports history and the most decorated football manager of all time - self-identifies as a socialist.
X0ppP TIL the Mechanical Turk was a chess playing machine from 1770 that seemed to be able to compete against a human chess player like artificial intelligence. Except that it simply hid another human player within itself.
jNjZp TIL that Sony’s PlayStation was developed to be an add-on CD-ROM unit to the Super Nintendo. Instead, Sony decided to compete against Nintendo after the latter announced a partnership with Philips on the CD drive one day before the SNES-Play Station was supposed to be announced by Sony.