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TIL The NFL is Tax Exempt

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K0XR TIL Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush both vetoed bills that would reinstate the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ which required media outlets to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable and balanced
KQ6a TIL when the Abbey National Building Society moved into 219-229 Baker Street, London, they employed a full-time secretary to answer mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes (fictional address: 221b Baker Street)
kJP0m TIL the phallic symbol of Makamake, the second largest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, is because the God of Fertility it was named after has big eyes and nose
ybl8 TIL that many believe that Freud ignored his patients being victims of sexual abuse, which would cause drastic misinterpretation of his findings.
wLbdP TIL There is a statue of Van Damme in a village called Vandam (in Azerbaijan)