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TIL SoFi Stadium's 5 billion dollar construction cost was entirely funded by private investors with no tax payer money.

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KOv4R TIL of gyandromorphism: an occurence in nature in which an organism has both male and female characteristics in one body; sometimes surfacing as male on one half of the body and female on the other.
4oR5 TIL that the first automated telephone exchange was created by Almon B. Strowger, because a competitor’s wife was the operator of his local exchange, and therefore redirected calls meant for him to her husband’s business instead.
rnMd TIL in 1956, the U.S. passed the Refrigerator Safety Act, which made it mandatory for all fridges to be magnetically sealed. This was due to the high amount of children who suffocated in latched refrigerators.
J1pel TIL Nuclear Submarines can stay underwater for 30 years of operation. The only resource that limits the time underwater is the food supply for the crew and maintenance of the vessel.
nWa5G TIL about the ghost ship Sachem, which started as a world class yacht in NYC, became a warship in WW1, transported Thomas Edison for wartime experiments, and eventually became a pleasure ship again before becoming stuck in a small creek in Kentucky where it sits today.