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TIL A stone circle, thought to be thousands of years old, was discovered in Scotland. After investigation it turned out to be only 20 years old, put there by the previous farm owner.

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AAOw TIL in 1923, Jack Trice, the 1st Black football player for Iowa St., suffered severe injuries by opposing team Minnesota. He continued to play after a broken collarbone & being trampled upon. 2 days later he died from his injuries. Iowa St. refused to play Minnesota until 1989.
Zp81p TIL Leo Marks, WWII cryptographer, discovered that Dutch intelligence was compromised when coded messages came through with zero typos or grammar errors. The grammar Nazis were, in fact, actual Nazis.
5w58 TIL in 1994 a passenger was killed by a bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight. This led Philippine police to discover a plot to blow up 11 airplanes in 48 hours over the Pacific, and another plot, which they shared with the FBI in 1995, to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
D17mJ TIL about Xennials, a micro-generation described as having had "an analog childhood and a digital adulthood"
WjN TIL Steve Carell wanted to play the Joker.