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TIL There is a stadium in Brazil in which the midfield line is supposedly made exactly on the equator making each team defend one hemisphere.

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GWp7 TIL Mars, inc denied the use of M&M’s to be used in Steven Spielberg’s ET, describing the character as a “creature whose appearance falls somewhere between stray dog with mange and syphilitic genitals”
WDNY TIL: Theodore Roosevelt had a chest tattoo of his family crest. He’s the only President to have one, although Andrew Jackson was rumored to have a tomahawk tattooed on his thigh.
OolpY TIL in September 1939, at the onset of World War II. The Night Watch was detached from its frame and rolled around a cylinder. The rolled painting was stored for four years in a special safe that was built to protect many works of art in the caves of Maastricht, Netherlands.
dKp7 TIL that a muslim man who was shot in the days after 9/11 then forgave his attacker and fought to save the man from the death penalty. He lost that fight.
b64Aa TIL that the Philadelphia Derringer which became popular with assassins, were almost always sold in matching pairs and are now these days very hard to find still in this condition.