› added 5 months ago

16

TIL Former NFL LB Takeo Spikes played in 219 regular season games without ever making the playoffs, the most of any player in NFL history. The Eagles, 49ers, and Chargers all made the playoffs the year after Spikes left each team.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0wNyM TIL the only ski jumping medalist in United States history won his medal 50 years later after a scoring error was discovered.
npbb TIL that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was deliberately poisoned, which became apparent as his complexion seemed to age decades over the course of months.
DQOPD Today I learned that Stilton cheese cannot legally be made in Stilton, the village which gave the cheese its name
neE9W TIL of The Testimony of Truth, a 4th century Gnostic manuscript that tells the story of The Garden of Eden from the point of view the serpent, a gnostic symbol for divine wisdom and knowledge, in which it depicts God as jealous and the villain in the story.
WkrE4 TIL Mercury is actually closer to Earth than Venus and Mars (mostly). And same applies to the sun and all planets in the Solar System.