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TIL the Green Bay Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States.

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gby TIL the difference between a poison, a toxin and a venom. A poison is any substance that disturbs an organism’s functions, a toxin is a poison produced biologically and a venom is a toxin that is injected with a bite or sting.
a804M TIL that the Yautja alien in Predator (1987) was originally played by Jean-Claude Van Damme, until he was fired due to the actor experiencing dehydration during production.
4XKya TIL NASA lost communication with a spacecraft due to systems continuously rebooting because it can't process a date past August 11 2013.
0Ljy TIL: In 1963, an East German soldier named Wolfgang Engels stole a tank and drove it through the Berlin Wall at top speed to try and escape.
ANbxB TIL In 1919, a group of seven women in the United Kingdom formed the Women's Engineering Society (WES), the first professional organization for women in all engineering fields