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TIL: Unsolved Mysteries has Helped Solve Over 260 Cases

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PYPLJ TIL in 1941 the owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles NFL teams swapped franchises, meaning all players relocated and the teams were renamed. Despite the 1940 Eagles and 1941 Eagles being completely different teams, the NFL considers them one unbroken entity.
yVrZa TIL that Paralympic athletes with spinal cord injuries cheat by intentionally breaking bones or electrocuting themselves before a competition; as their heart rate and blood pressure does not naturally increase while competing.
BrOED TIL Refracting telescopes use the original telescope design by Galileo, with two lenses in a hollow tube. They can provide a crystal clear image for observing close celestial objects like moon and planets but not good for for deep sky objects, unlike reflector telescopes
7mbP TIL of a notorious driver in Ireland who has evaded the police until his identity was discovered to be Prawo Jazdy — Polish for “Driver’s License”
QNRJL TIL: Adam West, according to costar Burt Ward, had a lot of sex , at one point with 8 women at the same time. He said that he was introduced by West to the "wildest sexual debauchery" and they became like "sexual vampires"