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TIL in 1998 a lightning killed an entire football team, the opposing team, unharmed, is accused of black arts.

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ANE1x TIL Shatoosh, meaning wool king in Persian, is the wool from a Tibetan antelope, with the average fiber diameter of a down hair being 11.45 microns compared with cashmere 13-15 microns. it is known as the finest of all animal hairs. The production, sale, and acquisition of it is illegal.
kONpe TIL Alice Cooper once appeared on The Muppet Show, playing one of the Devil’s agents and offered the Muppets endless wealth and fame in exchange for their souls.
mW7P TIL that Norway, Sweden, and Finland together are NOT Scandinavia, but are Fennoscandia; Scandinavia actually comprises Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, NOT Finland
x60W7 TIL that in 1998, NATO translated Dr. Seuss’ “Sneetches and Other Stories” into Serbo-Croatian and planned to distribute 500,000 copies in Bosnia to teach children about tolerance. The plans were later scaled back because they did not meet NATO standards.
69QnX TIL That no one in the Doobie Brothers are named Doobie or are brthers , Instead they are named that because they smoked a lot of weed .