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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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OGLm1 TIL the fastest spinning celestial object in the universe is a Neutron star called PSR J1748-2446. It rotates 716 times every second and it's equator moves at about 25% the speed of light. It is also has a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than the Sun’s.
0dNnR TIL A Roman soldier mooned at crowds in Jerusalem, causing a stampede which left 10k people dead
wLJa6 TIL Iron is an essential element for blood production. About 70 percent of your body's iron is found in the red blood cells of your blood called hemoglobin and in muscle cells called myoglobin. Hemoglobin is essential for transferring oxygen in your blood from the lungs to the tissues.
BYed TIL in 1964, the US government hired two average physics PhDs to design an atom bomb based solely on publicly available information to see how easy it actually is.
QJE7k TIL For at least 6 years, ad companies have been retroactively adding/changing product placements in old TV shows