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TIL that professional walking was America's first major spectator sport.

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Z1RB TIL that in 2005 the FBI spent two years chasing down leaders of “God Hates Goths” church before realizing the whole thing was a parody
6975m TIL in 1990 NASA turned the Galileo spacecraft towards Earth to look for signs of life
jNl7R TIL that Unicorns appear in the KJV Bible 9 times due to the translation of an ambiguous Hebrew word.
RLd8 TIL recycling aluminum uses 95% less energy than that needed to produce it from scratch—nearly 75% of the aluminum ever produced is still in use today.
KEJJ TIL that when Madeline L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, was asked if the film adaption met her expectations, she replied, “Yes, I expected it to be bad, and it is.”