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TIL NFL players swap jerseys with members of opposing teams as a show of respect, if they attended the same school, or previously played together. Teams retain several seamstresses to tailor fit players, taking 10 hours a jersey.

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nexmr TIL the greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia who gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
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ogPr TIL that scientists found that whether blind-folded or not, people who were asked to walk in a straight line without a point of reference to follow will walk in a circle. They can’t seem to figure out why.
loGeK TIL that sailors slept in hammocks, as they stayed well balanced even if the ship was in motion. The Royal Navy formally adopted the sling hammock in 1597 much after Columbus discovered them in the Bahamas. Sailors got so accustomed to hammocks that they even took them back on leave.
Z8n6Y TIL in the US, kitty litter is a $2 billion industry. Consuming five billion pounds (2.3 Mt) of mined clay annually.