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TIL about the Collegiate Sprint Football League, where players must weigh less than 178 pounds and have a minimum of 5% body fat.

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R5M44 TIL: Underwater bomb detectors can be used to track whale populations and in 2022 scientists used bomb detectors to uncover a new population of pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean
7LGL TIL that the term “cold war” first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell called “You and the Atomic Bomb.”
QpQd TIL that the American flag planted on the moon by the crew of Apollo 11 was blown over by the exhaust of the Lunar Module when taking off
aLNy TIL that a 6-minute, fan-made Batman movie exists where Batman fights Predator, Alien, and the Joker. It premiered at Comic Con in 2003 and Kevin Smith called it “possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made.”
6bKW TIL the first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science was a nun.