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TIL while exploring behind my house I found an abandoned set of railway tracks which were last used in the 18th century.

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NX6De TIL that Bea Benaderet, Jethro's mother on The Beverly Hillbillies and Kate on Petticoat Junction was also the voice of Granny in the Tweety commercials and the original series voice of Betty Rubble on the Flintstones. She died at age 60 in 1968 before any of those shows finished from Lung Cancer.
lo0JG TIL that 19 players died playing football in 1905 and about to be banned by colleges until Teddy Roosevelt changed it making it safer and saved Football. Such as the forward pass, a neutral zone, prohibitions against brutal maneuvers like kneeing and punching opponents using locked hands.
7r4VO TIL that No Kum-Sok, the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft, received a $100,000 reward from Operation Moolah in 1953. He landed the wrong way on the runway: had he tried to land in the right direction, he would have been spotted and shot down.
P1a5g TIL of a spider that presents from behind a tough, flat, circular shield resembling the cover of a manhole. The ravine trapdoor spider is the common name of a rare, oddly shaped North American spider. This spider looks as though the end of its abdomen, rear segment of the body, had been sliced off.
4XwJo TIL when American businesswoman and convicted felon Leona Helmsley died, her will left her Maltese dog, Trouble, a $12 million trust fund, whilst leaving two of her four grandchildren with nothing. This sum was subsequently reduced to $2 million as excessive to fulfill its purpose.