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TIL the NFL formed a committee to falsify information in order to hide brain injuries sustained by their players.

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JYd7m TIL Sculptor Michelangelo had no experience painting frescoes and did not consider himself a painter when he reluctantly took the commission for the Sistine Chapel. He even wrote a poem about how much he hated doing it.
EgmvP TIL about Pasuckuakohowog, a Native American sport vaguely similar to soccer, but played by teams of up to 500 players with goals a half mile wide and the field being a mile long
6EVyX TIL that in 1986, when a five year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness, a male gorilla named Jambo stood between the boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, he even stroke the boy's back. This incident helped create a positive public perception of gorillas.
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JLVV TIL The man who wrote the documents of surrender signed by Confederate general Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse on this day in 1865 was a Seneca Indian named Ely Parker( born Hasanoanda). Upon meeting him Lee extended his hand and said, “I am glad to see one real American here.”