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TIL President McKinley was assassinated at the world's fair

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4MGN TIL the NCAA changed food rules to allow Division 1 athletes to have unlimited meals at school instead of just 3; and the change was probably due to UConn’s guard Shabazz Napier telling reporters he often “went to bed hungry.”
E1dvp TIL that the Triceratops possessed a ball-and-socket joint at the base of its skull, not found in any dinosaur or any mammal today. This joint would have allowed it to maneuver its head almost 360 degrees, allowing movement to any direction in a fraction of a second.
16XQW TIL that the slingshot (catapult in the UK) was only invented in the mid-1800s, as it relies on strong elastic materials that didn’t exist before that time.
5ngD TIL Phoenix Jones is an ex-MMA fighter turned superhero who fights crime in Seattle and streams all of his escapades
LkoKm TIL it is estimated a quarter of the entire human population is infected with the airborne disease Tuberculosis