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TIL that the Guinness Records for loudest outdoor AND indoor stadium crowd roars are both held by stadiums in the Kansas City area. Arrowhead Stadium at 142.2db outdoors and Allen Fieldhouse at 130.4db indoors.

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BrW1x TIL that Larry Flynt has sent a monthly copy of Hustler to every congressional office since 1983, and members of Congress can't stop receiving the magazines—because a court agreed that it was within Flynt's right to petition the government under the First Amendment.
GwB5 TIL if you write any number in words (English), count the number of letters, write this new number in words and so on, you’ll end with number 4
1aWGr TIL despite the title of the 1990 novel and 1993 movie "Jurassic Park", most of the dinosaurs depicted in these sources were from the Cretaceous period, not Jurassic.
R5w79 TIL That the symbol ^ is called a "caret" not a "carrot", from the Latin meaning "it lacks"
neb6Y TIL In 1975 Brooke Shields at age 10 was photographed nude for a Playboy shoot that was signed off on by her mother.