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TIL that Referees who officiate the final NFL Super Bowl also receive championship rings.

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R7Bb4 TIL: there is a radioactive mass created by the Chernobyl disaster that is so dense it could only be pierced by an AKM rifle, destroyed any camera that tried to take a picture of it (photographs had to be made with a mirror), and ate through 2m of materials to arrive at its current location.
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aGxA TIL that the reason Moe’s last name is Szyslak is because The Simpsons writers needed more MS initialed names for Who Shot Mr Burns.
EVjp TIL In 2007 Navy SEAL Mike Day was shot 27 times by four Al Qaeda gunmen and hit by grenade shrapnel, but he killed all four of the gunmen and walked out to the extraction helicopter. He recovered and is living with his wife and daughters.