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TIL that, on average, 2 NCAA football players die every season, mostly due to strenuous preseason training

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D1yej TIL when the US Military demanded a 'colour-only' bar in Bamber, UK, all three pubs in the village declared themselves to be for black people only, effectively denying white American servicemen an area to drink.
gMlBA TIL that Turkeys were heralded by the Mayan people as vessels of the gods and were honored as such, so much so that they were domesticated to have roles in religious rites. They were symbols of power and prestige and can be found everywhere in Maya iconography and archaeology.
wvOo TIL: George Lucas later sent Mel Brooks a note saying how much he loved Spaceballs and that he “was afraid [he] would bust something from laughing.”
6EZOw TIL that about 110 children are kidnapped by strangers every year in the United States. About 40% of such cases end in the child's death, and another 4% with the child never being recovered. The vast majority of the 50,000+ yearly reported missing children cases are resolved with the child found.
ANPVl TIL for movie The Reader (2008), the filming of the movie had to be delayed for 2 years so that actor David Kross had turned 18 in order to shoot sex scenes with Kate Winslet.