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TIL that the Cat costume Mike Myers wore in the 2003 live-action Cat in the Hat film was made out of wool and human hair.

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Me7Q0 TIL the American Soccer League made soccer fairly popular in the U.S. in the 1920's. However, FIFA and the United States Football Association forced the ASL to fold in 1933, creating the image of soccer being a foreign and unwelcoming sport to americans.
wLoLY TIL that there is evidence that voluntary running suppresses tumor growth by mobilizing natural killer cells in an epinephrine-dependent manner.
wodgW TIL about the great African American migration. Between 1910 and 1970, 6 million black Americans moved out of the rural south to urban northeast, Midwest, and west due to segregation and discrimination in the south.
nWkPb TIL all the chutes opened properly in the worst skydiving accident in US history. The 16 fatalities occurred because they were told to jump over water, instead of land, and drown.
lVWK TIL that Hippos mark their territory by defecation. While depositing the faeces, hippos spin their tails to distribute their excrement over a greater area.