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TIL that alleles have a big impact on your sexuality
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TIL that in 1987 the NFL used replacement players due to a strike. The Redskins used a quarterback on work furlough from prison and another player, after scoring a touchdown, went over to the stands and picked up a package from his sister with his laundry because he couldn’t afford to do his own
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TIL that on June 29, 1841 William and John Driscoll were executed by a firing squad comprised of 111 "Regulators". The two men were part of a group of loose-knit outlaw gangs known as the Banditti of the Prairie which terrorize Northern Illinois during the early to mid-19th century.
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TIL that there are hundreds of totally free online courses from universities like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Caltech, and others in a huge range of subjects
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TIL that for $12,500 (slightly more than average funeral costs) you can have your remains launched into deep space
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TIL that Viggo Mortensen was offered the role of Aragorn in Peter Jackson's Hobbit film trilogy, but turned it down since Aragorn never appeared in Tolkien's Hobbit.