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TIL that tight end Antonio Gates amassed a Hall of Fame NFL career despite having never played college football. He went to college wanting to play both basketball and football, but played basketball after being told he could only play football.

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0yGL TIL that in 1964 while federal authorities were searching for 3 civil rights workers presumed murdered by the KKK in Mississippi their search yielded the remains of another 8 blacks that had been murdered by the KKK including a 14 year old boy.
YplWA TIL that the common ancestor of all fish had lungs, and that modern swim bladders in most fish are actually highly-derived lungs. In more oxygen-poor times hundreds of millions of years ago, being able to gulp down oxygen, which was more plentiful in air, was a huge evolutionary advantage.
5d89 TIL: Most ATMs run Windows XP, which Microsoft is ending support for on April 8th
YgWP TIL that there are only 500 blockbuster video stores left in the USA
pYwoO TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement.