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TIL Biggest NBA brawl in history left players with $11.2 million fine and caused numerous game suspensions

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vjkr TIL The two “M’s” in M&Ms represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr. (son of candy company Mars, Inc. founder Frank C. Mars) and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey’s Chocolate president William F. R. Murrie).
4QZa TIL that Andre the giant once drank 119 beers in 6 hours, that’s one every 3 minutes, passed out and when they couldn’t move him they put a piano cover over him and let him sleep it off.
9YMXD TIL the US military allows Norse Heathens to grow beards and the Hammer of Thor symbol is allowed on headstones.
e0N0k TIL that there was another kind of hidden track possible on audio CDs call a pregap/zero track. You had to rewind from track 1 to hear it.
Lvnm TIL there were four mass extinction events before the one that killed the Dinosaurs. The most severe killed a staggering 97% of all species. All life on Earth today is descended from the 3% that survived.