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TIL that between 1999 and 2006 14 high school football players have been paralyzed in Texas alone

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Lkp00 TIL of the Taman Shud case: a mysterious unidentified corpse of a man found on the beach in Australia in 1948, cleanly shaven with no identification marks but a piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud,” meaning the end.
ZKvY TIL Iggy Azalea is the only artist since the Beatles whose first two Hot 100 hits have ranked first and second simultaneously.
dQo9 TIL that there are hundreds of thousands of unexploded Allied bombs in Germany. An average of 15 bombs are discovered daily.
ZpGOG TIL that Granny Smith apples originated near Sydney, Australia in 1868 and were only first imported en masse to the US in the 1970’s.
6990Y TIL The U.S.A delivers mail using "Postal Donkeys" in some hard to reach areas.