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TIL that there is a church in scotland which has a gargoyle in the shape of a Xenomorph from the Alien movies

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b9WoE TIL: The worst sports disaster took place in 29 CE in a cheap wooden stadium in Fidenae, 8 miles north of Rome. It collapsed during a crowded gladiator game and killed at least 20,000 people. The Roman Senate responded by requiring that future stadiums be inspected and certified.
4XEVg TIL Meghan Smith is the person with the most uncredited movie/series appearances on the planet. She is the woman whose portrait is printed on a newspaper prop used regularly over the past 60 years
oBDKr TIL that rapper Lil Skies was a straight A student in high school, and that he graduated HS and briefly attended Shippensburg University PA before dropping out to focus on his rap career.
9Ow7 TIL there is a sport call Archery Tag that is basically like dodgeball, but with foam-tipped arrows.
OG804 TIL 51-year-old electrician Mike McDermott broke the odds of 1 in 283 billion by winning the lotto TWICE in one year, doing it both times using the same numbers!