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TIL In 1943, due to both teams losing a large number of players to military service in World War II, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged and thus created the Steagles. They ended with a winning season of 5-4-1.

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D154D TIL Nikola Tesla planned to make school children smarter and healthier by saturating them unconsciously with electricity, wiring the walls of a schoolroom with high-voltage lines. The plan was provisionally approved by then superintendent of New York City schools, William H. Maxwell.
d9yQ TIL that 45 years ago today, on October 29, 1969, at what can justifiably be called “The Birth of the Internet”, a UCLA computer connected for the first time via phone line to a Stanford one, sending the first host-to-host message, logging on with the two letters: “LO” at 2230 PST, before crashing.
p84gZ TIL the Yucatan Peninsula got its name when the first Spanish explorers asked the Aztecs where they were and they said, "Yucatan," which means "I don't understand what you are saying" in their language and the Spanish thought that it was the name of the place.
E1vJW TIL: Einstein reportedly didn't want his brain studied post-mortem; nonetheless, the autopsy doctor took the brain without family permission. It took around 20 years for the public to learn just how much of the "specimen" remained with that doctor.
78wp7 TIL: The day Alice and Chains started recording their second album "Dirt," was the same day the 1992 Los Angeles riots began. The band escaped to Joshua Tree National park and waited there for about 5 days, taking Slayer vocalist Tom Araya with them.