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TIL that former NFL quarterback Todd Marinovich left the league due to his drug problems. He didn’t play football for the next eight years until he signed with the Arena Football League. He threw ten touchdowns in his first game back while withdrawing from heroin.

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GEZj TIL the consumption of fresh mango 45 minutes before inhaling cannabis will result in a faster onset and greater intensity of the psychoactive effects
R7P4w TIL: A Hawaiian company that had the contract to dispose of illegal fireworks decided to manually disassemble each firework by hand with metal tools. (4 workers were killed)
NXeKP TIL of Robert Wardhaugh, a history professor and DnD Dungeon Master who has been running the same game of DnD for 40 years
aJmo TIL TSA officials at Dulles International Airport snapped a cellist’s $20,000 bow in half, then replaced it in the case for him to find later. By forcing it down, they cracked a part of the cello too
No6 TIL: John Stapp withstood 46.2 G forces in 1947, the most any human has ever been subject to and survive.