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TIL former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue played college basketball at Georgetown.

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N7wkE TIL during surgery on a 60-year-old woman, Italian doctors discovered one of the first heart prostheses - an artificial mitral valve - which was implanted almost 50 years ago when the patient was 10, by Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant
bWEa TIL the popular Actor John Wayne was an unabashed white supremacist who voiced support for the genocide of Native Americans
neygP TIL that U.S. states used to conduct their own censuses.
JYE1 TIL that the proper way to use a bobby pin is with the ridges facing down - flat side up.
R8Ra TIL in 1997, the pilot of an A-10 attack jet turned off his radio and transponder for no apparent reason and flew hundreds of miles off course during a training mission, later crashing into a mountainside in Colorado. No explanation for the pilot’s actions was ever found.