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TIL: The Green Bay Packers is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States.

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w6W8 TIL that in 1978 a lone pilot flying in Australia reported to air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft above him. Asked to identify the aircraft, he radioed “It isn’t an aircraft”. His plane disappeared and has never been found.
OobwR TIL I learned the 1994 movie title 'The Santa Clause' is a pun and not the correct spelling of "Santa Claus."
J1dmj TIL Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than shrews.
Ypy9A TIL: Up until the 1950's, NYC had an abundance of wild marijuana plants, with some in Brooklyn growing as high as seven feet tall. They were all eventually eradicated by the Department of Sanitation, destroying nearly 41,000 pounds of wild weed.
MedQ8 TIL for a motorcycle stunt in 'No Time To Die', they had to pour 8400 gallons of Coca Cola onto a street of Italy to make the stunt possible. They did that to make the street less slippery and it cost over $70k.