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TIL the current record for the loudest NFL stadium is 142 decibels. Over 30 decibels greater than a sonic boom produced by a military fighter jet breaking the speed of sound

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YpolG TIL About a Nez Percè women named Watkuweis. In 1805, she convinced her tribe not to kill a weakened Lewis and Clark Expedition, and help them instead. Her altruism saved one of the most important expeditions in history. (U.S. National Park Service)
xVJPb TIL about Archie "The Greek" Karas, a gambler who turned $50 into $40M and lost it all in a year
8aPyX TIL In 1957, a terminal cancer patient was given a worthless drug that caused his tumors to “melt like snowballs on a hot stove.” When he found out it was proven worthless, his cancer returned. He was given a placebo version and it went away again. Got truth again and died.
mxeJv TIL: There's still an Inca-style woven-grass bridge standing. It dangles around 5 stories above Peru's Apurimac River and is over 115 feet long. Continuing a centuries-old tradition, area villagers annually restore the Q'eswachaka Rope Bridge and keep it in usable condition.
N7d0J TIL that the physician who tended to President Garfield after he was shot was Doctor Willard Bliss. His first name was Doctor.