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TIL that many American Football Stadiums have Sniper Nests built into them for SWAT team members during games and events.

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PYnxE TIL A circle roughly 2,500 miles in diameter, when placed over the right part of Asia, could hold more than half the world's population
OoXQe TIL that for the English-language version of the Japanese Studio Ghibli movie, Ponyo, the animators had to painstakingly re-draw the lips and mouth movements to properly match the language change - "You don't think of this as being a dubbed Japanese film."
gJyb TIL that at its peak the Justinian Plague was reported to be killing 10,000 people in Constantinople daily.
VMJj0 TIL that 17 years before Confederate General James Longstreet surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, he stood as a groomsman in Grant's wedding. At the surrender, they embraced and reminisced about "the days that were so pleasant."
YM4P TIL in 1913 it was legal to mail children. With stamps attached to their clothing, children rode trains to their destinations, accompanied by letter carriers. A newspaper reported it cost 53 cents for parents to mail their daughter to her grandparents for a family visit.