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TIL the first football game was played in NJ between Rutgers and Princeton on Nov 6, 1869

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oRexY TIL The term “Romance languages” has nothing to do with being languages of love, but rather because they all descend from the same parent language- Latin, the language of the Romans. The English term “romance” descends from the French word for a particular Latin dialect called Romanicus.
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JYD8V TIL of Brian Wells, the pizza delivery driver who alleged to have been taken hostage with a bomb around his neck and instructed to rob a bank