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TIL Green Bay, Wisconsin has a population of 100k - despite this every Packers home game has been sold out since 1960 & the wait time for season tickets is 30 years

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mP5x TIL that Jack Nicholson was brought up believing that his mother was his sister and his grandparents were his parents. For 37 years.
7lZP TIL: NASA was to hide the discovery of extraterrestrial life out of fear of societal collapse.
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