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TIL about the Saskatoon freezing deaths of Indigenous Canadians

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RA0a TIL that during World War II the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged into one team due to a shortage of players. They were known as the “steagles.”
b6XPQ TIL of the Disney centrifuge. In 1964, Walt Disney and author Ray Bradbury met for lunch and Disney brought up his idea for Disney World. Bradbury described it as a "Schweitzer’s centrifuge", which comes from “Do something wonderful; people may imitate it.”, attributed to Albert Schweitzer.
Qbmk TIL JFK ordered 1,200 of his favorite Cuban cigars the night before he signed the Cuban embargo
v16Ar TIL that the part of sea urchins we eat ("uni") are their sex organs.
VMpwB TIL A single cleaner wrasse fish works removing bloodsucking parasites from up to 2,000 client fish per day. They sometimes cheat their clients by taking illicit bites of the protective mucus covering their skin. If a client gets upset, they try to make amends by offering a complementary fin massage