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TIL about Pasuckuakohowog, a Native American sport vaguely similar to soccer, but played by teams of up to 500 players with goals a half mile wide and the field being a mile long

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5Y5Mn TIL The last words of serial killer Peter Kürten were “Tell me… after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
PXQe TIL A defector used balloons to air drop thousands of copies of the film “The Interview” into North Korea.
VMAmk TIL that tornadoes are more common in United States than in any other country. The US has over 1,200 a year - four times the number in Europe
X0eYX TIL in 2006 a Romanian man, Florin Fodor, was charged for trying to illegally immigrate to Canada multiple times. He was first deported from Canada in 2000, and then in 2006 he attempted to enter again by sailing from Greenland to Nunavut in a 20 foot fiberglass boat.
BrXRx TIL siblings born within a year of each other are called "Irish twins", which was a derogatory term referring to poor Catholic families with many successive children