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TIL Randy Johnson is the oldest pitcher to pitch a perfect game and the only one who accidentally exploded a bird.

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PY1ZJ TIL than an average NFL lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes
wLx5P TIL that in this famous photo of a man being executed in the Vietnam War, both the executioner and the executed have the exact same Family name: Nguyễn. The reason for the brutal summary execution was because he had slit the throats of a military leader and his entire family, all also named Nguyễn.
b9Gb7 TIL that 75 percent of all silent films ever made are estimated to be completely lost, as well as half of all films made from 1927 to 1950
VMmdm TIL of the Book of Judith (~300 BC) whose hero is a beautiful widow who saves her people by befriending and decapitating the Assyrian general.
dDEXr TIL that the BGP, the protocol responsible for routing information across the internet is known as the three-napkin protocol because it was originally sketched out on the back of "three ketchup-stained napkins"