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TIL Creed put on such a bad show in 2002 at Allstate Arena that a $2,000,000 class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of all the fans in atendance

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awebb TIL of Alan Francis, who has won 8 consecutive World Horseshoe Championship titles, and 16 of the 17 years. He has a total of 24 World Horseshoe Championship titles. The New York Times has even referred to him as the “most dominant athlete in any sport in the country"
DQ05r TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was one of the ushers at Martin Luther King's funeral held at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia after his assassination in 1968.
oB88Y TIL James Taylor’s father served as the medical officer for Deep Freeze, an expedition to Antarctica.
1N0W TIL that an armored SUV could not protect US agents in Mexico during an ambush because the doors unlocked when the vehicle was put in park .
x6j5k TIL Neil Armstrong became a professor after he walked on the moon, teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.