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TIL the NERF football was invented by a former NFL placekicker—Fred Cox of the Minnesota Vikings

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v14P4 TIL in 2011 a British think tank conducted a study on 450,000 followers of 14 European far-right organizations on Facebook and found that 2/3 were aged under 30 and that 3/4 were male and more likely than average to be unemployed.
ZJeG TIL a Brisbane golf course became infested with sharks after a river broke its banks and flooded the area. The sharks became stranded when the water receded, but now are thriving and even breeding.
D1Ykv TIL that American actor Vincent D'Onofrio holds the record for the most weight gained by an actor in a movie, having gained 70 lb (32 kg) for a total weight of 280 lb (130 kg) for his portrayal of Pvt. Leonard Lawrence in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Meg9m TIL of Adam Rainer, the only known person in history to be both a giant and a dwarf, he was 3’8” at age 19, and 7’8” at age 51
p8jlQ TIL only about 4 percent of people have "outie" bellybuttons as adults. Surgeons now offer umbilicoplasty procedures to change the bellybutton's appearance and to turn outies into innies.