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TIL The university of Texas football players ate their mascot at a sports banquet in 1920.

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J15NB TIL since January 2025 to current a total of 3,274 children have been reported missing to the MCC in Virginia. A weekly average of 98
m1Z7P TIL about the Cottingley Fairies, a hoax made by 2 young girls, that claimed to have photographed fairies in their back yard. They managed to fool Arthur Conan Doyle with this hoax.
Mexdm TIL about Kryptos. A sculpture of 4 encrypted messages by artist Jim Sanborn at the CIA Langley grounds. The first 3 parts have been solved but the 4th remains a mystery despite continued worldwide efforts to decode it.
VMvpm TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory did not have its origin in a Ray Bradbury short story
5YVYk TIL that people who acquire blindness still have visual dreams, but people who have been blind since birth have auditory dreams.