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TIL in 2000, Galoob Toys Inc. recalled about 8.9 million Sky Dancers flying dolls after receiving reports of injures which resulted from the doll striking adults and children, such as scratched corneas, broken teeth, a mild concussion, a broken rib, and facial lacerations that required stitches

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4k6Ga TIL Horseshoe Crabs are more closely related to scorpions and spiders than they are to true crabs
neMn9 TIL it has been 27 years since a Canadian team has won the Stanley cup. With the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. The last opportunity a Canadian team had to win the cup was in 2011, when the Vancouver Canucks lost in game 7 to the Boston Bruins.
R7WYa TIL Alex Trebek has been hosting Jeopardy! longer than I have been alive (I’m 35 years old)
xad1 TIL that in 1943 three Belgian men held up a train and liberated 200 Jews using only one gun and some wire cutters.
Eybp TIL the highest paid CEO in the US made $141,949,280 in 2013. Put another way, he made approximately the average yearly household income in the US…every 3 hours.