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TIL the inventor of the Nerf football is the all-time leading scorer for the Minnesota Vikings

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gX7D TIL that no Pixar movie has ever been a flop or made less than $150 million domestically.
KYjQB TIL Neil Armstrong saved a bag of parts from the Eagle, the spacecraft he flew to the first lunar landing. It is believed he didn't tell anyone of it's existence and it wasn't discovered until his wife cleaned out his closet after he died.
8a9l8 TIL actor Oliver Reed died during a break from shooting Gladiator after winning a drinking match with British sailors. He "drank eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of rum, half a bottle of whiskey and a few shots of Hennessy" and beat five young sailors at arm wrestling before collapsing.
N7B7Q TIL that the word echo comes from a nymph in Greek myth, Echo, who was cursed with a speech impediment so that she could only repeat what others said.
7rDw7 TIL that Ottoman military music, as a genre, is alive and well to this day