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TIL Louisiana loses a football field of land every hour to the ocean

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lykV TIL the treadmill was created as a torture device.
N7JK1 TIL that Dustin Hoffman was interested in playing Mario in the 1993 Super Mario Bros film, but was declined by Nintendo because they thought he didn't fit the role.
4kMOb TIL: LaserDiscs were first marketed and sold in 1978 — and they were originally called DiscoVision! 🪩🕺🏼
jNvvX TIL: Gregory the Great- 6th Century Pope (and Saint) wrote of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute, despite there being no record of this in Scripture. Contemporary scholars agree that Mary Magdalene was likely an upper class woman who supported Jesus Christ- but not necessarily a prostitute.
bWEa TIL the popular Actor John Wayne was an unabashed white supremacist who voiced support for the genocide of Native Americans