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TIL an average NFL game has just 11 minutes of play

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yQRVM TIL that Steve McQueen and Keith Moon (drummer for The Who) were neighbors. Their relationship soured after Moon came to McQueen's house once, broke in, got bit by McQueen's dog, and bit the dog back. The conflict stopped after McQueen blew out a light that Moon kept on to annoy him with a shotgun.
rNVay TIL the actor who played Ned Ryerson, had a garage band that went to a studio to record a couple of songs and had a local kid to lay down the lead guitar.....14 year old Stevie Ray Vaughn.
0wQ91 TIL about "The Forgotten 500" U.S. airmen who were shot down during bombing raids into Romania. Serbian peasants hid the airmen, at considerable risk, while the men, living on goat’s milk, had to build a runway large enough to land C-47s, without any real tools or alerting Nazis, for their rescue.
0ZGp TIL that Sriracha sauce (“rooster sauce”) founder Huy Fong started his company in a small office in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, hand-grinding peppers and selling the sauce to friends - he now runs it out of a 655,000 square foot HQ.
1a84O TIL the Rod of Asclepius, a snake winding around a stick and international symbol of medicine, represents the treatment for the bloodworm Dracunculus. This worm travels through the blood and eats its way to the skin: treatment involves wrapping the worm around a wooden stick and pulling it out.