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TIL up to 78% of NFL players go bankrupt or fall into severe financial stress within just two years of retirement.

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499b TIL that an acre of hemp produces more paper than an acre of trees.
woPr7 til The hypothetical planet Vulcan that was thought to exist in orbit between Mercury and the Sun. It was disproved via the Theory of relativity in 1915.
kVpB TIL that after injecting cocaine into his urethra, a man suffered “‘extravagant complications’ that led to the loss of both legs, nine fingers and his penis.”
MekX7 TIL The world's largest family stays in India. The husband has 39 wives and 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.
XamQ TIL in 1994, Andres Escobar, a colombian soccer player , was killed for scoring a goal by mistake to his own team in the football World Cup of that year. The murder was only ten days after the mistake.