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TIL Hackers Could Launch Their Own Satellites to Create an ‘Uncensorable Internet’.

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0Pgj TIL early in American football, one coach had football-shaped leather patches sewn onto his team’s jerseys creating the illusion of a field full of ball carriers. When this trick was tried against Harvard, they countered by painting all the balls crimson, making them invisible against their jerseys
r94o TIL United States Founding Father John Dickinson was nearly unanimously elected as President of Delaware; the only dissenting vote was from himself
LQWMm TIL the NFL formed a committee to falsify information in order to hide brain injuries sustained by their players.
9YldX TIL Mixing Tylenol and Alcohol even in small amounts can kill you.
5VBVn TIL that in 2015, a Louisiana man was arrested for drunkenly riding a horse on a highway. When detained, he said, "The horse knows the way home" and the sheriff concluded it did not constitute DUI.