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TIL: You burn 650 calories donating one pint of blood.

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6Zm7 TIL that Usain Bolt was offered a position as wide receiver in the NFL, and rejected it due to the hits NFL players take.
Y7J0P TIL that in the UK, it is extremely rare for a football club to relocate to another city, since the team is inexplicably tied to the city and culture there, rather than just being operated like a business.
DRwg TIL that the “Dinosaurs” sitcom ended with the entire cast and all of dino-kind dying due to an Ice Age they caused from environmental neglect
vxx TIL That Keanu Reeves deferred his salary for The Devil’s Advocate to ensure the budget could afford Al Pacino for his role in the movie. He did it again for The Replacements to get Gene Hackman.
EWNo TIL: of Willem Arondeus, a Homosexual Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who bombed the Amsterdam Public Records Office to hinder the Nazi identification of Jews. He was arrested & executed. His last words were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”