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TIL the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was built as a memorial to WW1 veterans in 1923 and will be the first stadium to host 3 different Olympics games.

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9xvQ TIL that 14yo Davontae Sanford was coerced into confessing to a quadruple homicide by police in Detroit in 2007. The actual killer later confessed, but Davontae remains in prison serving a 37 to 90 year sentence.
myYo TIL it has been mathematically proven that in any random group of 23 people, there is always about a 50–50 chance that two individuals within that group will have the same birthday. This is known as the birthday paradox.
oVVo TIL NASA will begin producing its own food in orbit for the first time ever – The lettuce will be grown under bright-pink LED lights, ready to harvest after just 28 days.
neQeB TIL of the kangaroo mouse that lives in the Nevada desert. It can go its entire life without drinking as they can get all the fluid it needs from the seeds and grain it eats
WGGd TIL - That during the peak of Ebola news in 2014 people started to avoid Liberia airport in Costa Rica thinking that it was the country in Africa.