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TIL, Apollo Creed actor Carl Weathers played 1 NFL season for the Raiders with John Madden as his head coach

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bo7Z TIL Nightingale floors, or uguisubari (japanese - 鴬張り), were floors designed to make a chirping sound when walked upon. According to myth these floors were developed as a means of defense against ninjas.
m0wp TIL: Female bats give oral sex to male bats as foreplay to prolong the act of mating
ADYyg TIL after surviving the plane crash that killed three of his bandmates, Artimus Plyle (the drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd) was shot in the shoulder by a farmer as he stumbled though a field with a group of survivors.
xVPm0 Seven out of ten prescriptions written today are for items unknown to medicine before World War II.
oWLo TIL that Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) wrote Chris Farley’s sketch “In a Van Down by the River”